John Elkann Quotes

I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

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• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Powerful
  • Start
  • Name

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Morning

• I'm sure they will have more sequels for 'Tarzan' where he goes to England, school, and whatever else they can think of. It's a natural that they will continue the series.

  

  Kevin Lima
  • School

• Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Done
  • She
  • Quality

• I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

  

  Paul Rhys
  • Always
  • Comfortable
  • Outsider

• In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Good
  • Children
  • Family

• I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

  

  John Elkann
  • Family