Evan Esar Quotes

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Evan Esar

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• What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Business
  • Small
  • Party

• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • Business
  • Know

• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Competition
  • Everyday

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• Know the business, learn the business, own something.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Business
  • Know
  • Learn

• During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Friendship
  • Close

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Business

• Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and 'Down with Authority' her war-cry.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Work
  • War
  • Opportunity

• There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Work
  • Children
  • Business

• I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Business

• If you want your kid in the business, ask them if that's what they want. Don't be weird about it. There's a lot of pressure out there. Your child may fail. A lot of it has to do with chance, and it may not work out the way you or your child expects. You have to understand that ahead of time.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Business

• We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

  

  David Milne
  • Business

• When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Silver

• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Life

• I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • World
  • Sea

• YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

  Chad Hurley
  • Music
  • Family
  • Friends

• Lacking older siblings, the oldest or only child identifies primarily with her parents, conforming to their ideals and demands, not the least reason being that she no one with whom to share those demands. Since firstborns try to live up to the expectations of adults- teachers' as well as parents'- rather than that of peers, they are likely to learn more and to bring home better report cards than younger siblings. Thus firstborns pave the way for younger siblings, setting the standards against which they are measured and measure themselves.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Up
  • Live
  • Home

• The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Business
  • Reason
  • Competition