James P. Gorman Quotes
Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
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Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.
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Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
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Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.
