Charlie Ergen Quotes

There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.

Charlie Ergen

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• I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sunset

• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Parents
  • Down
  • Los Angeles

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Me
  • Painting
  • Doing

• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Smell

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Great
  • Man
  • Growing

• It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Evil

• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature

• I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music

• If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Why

• Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Time

• I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Edgy

• You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Night
  • Excuses

• If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Work
  • Done

• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Insanity

• The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Last
  • November
  • Miles

• There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Excuses