N. Robert Hammer Quotes

I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

N. Robert Hammer

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Care
  • Pride

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • Plan

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Movies
  • Nothing

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Building

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decisions

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • People
  • American
  • Science

• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • American

• We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

  

  Christiane Amanpour

• Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

  

  Lauren London
  • Life
  • Journey

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building