Peter Lynch Quotes
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Quotes to Explore
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
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But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.
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Every guy has got to have a tuxedo. If you're ever invited to an event where a tuxedo is necessary, you need to have it ready to go. A good-fitting one, too. It just has to look good.
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
