Jerry Greenfield Quotes
The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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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.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
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I wouldn't be here without Girls' Generation. If there were no Girls' Generation, there would be no me.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasnt just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldnt have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. Theres not enough respect in our business.
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The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
