James Sinegal Quotes

You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

James Sinegal

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Mother

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Natural

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Know
  • Position

• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • For Him

• It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • True
  • Alone

• Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Communication
  • Electronic
  • Excluded

• Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hollywood
  • Stills
  • Causes

• I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Films

• Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Great
  • Business
  • Justice

• Language is the tool of the tools.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Language
  • Tool

• Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Political
  • Decision
  • Profound

• Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

  

  Alvin Martin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Mourinho

• You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Kathleen Blackshear just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a discussion group where everyone had a say, and it was a tremendous learning experience.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Experience
  • Said
  • Groups

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Price
  • Entertain
  • What

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Chance
  • Prices
  • Private Sector

• You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

  

  James Sinegal
  • Price
  • Income
  • Raising