Chris Chocola Quotes

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

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• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Think
  • Today
  • Spirit

• My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Career
  • Parents

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Stars
  • Content

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • World
  • Boy

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Moment
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

  

  Arthur Hiller
  • Movie
  • Nice

• Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Why
  • Think
  • Reality

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Power
  • War
  • Future

• The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Business
  • Reality
  • Balance