Marvin Bower Quotes

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • History
  • Look

• I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Myself

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Need

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Money
  • Army

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Beats

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • American
  • Alone
  • Movies

• I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • People
  • Love
  • Charity

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Death
  • Point

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Parents

• For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Time
  • Important

• The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Men
  • Important

• Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Things

• Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

  

  Marvin Bower
  • Important