Kenneth Lay Quotes

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Kenneth Lay

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• Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Memorable
  • Restaurant
  • Meals

• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Grow

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Government
  • Crime
  • Run

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Communication

• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Try
  • Strength

• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Movies

• I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Care

• I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Up
  • School
  • Culture

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Sea
  • Ice

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Technology
  • Process
  • Grow

• Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'

  

  David Crystal
  • Words
  • Fall
  • Focus

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  

  Logic
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Logic

• And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work

• Investors don't like uncertainty.

  

  Kenneth Lay