Sergio Marchionne Quotes

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

Sergio Marchionne

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• It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Book
  • House
  • Beautiful

• The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • Sin
  • Paid

• No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Hell

• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Dying

• The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Canvas

• To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

  

  Banesh Hoffmann
  • World
  • Secret
  • Causality

• I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Song

• I like the present and tomorrow

  

  Karl Lagerfeld

• It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.

  

  John Reed
  • Family
  • Crazy
  • Against

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  

  Epictetus
  • Society
  • Carry
  • Judgements

• Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Leaders
  • Condemnation
  • IRA

• When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Passion
  • Marriage
  • Win

• Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Hearts
  • Bones
  • Bodies

• The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Road
  • Trip

• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Magic

• I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

  

  Eamonn Ceannt
  • May
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • See
  • Eagle

• Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

  

  Sergio Marchionne
  • Mediocrity
  • Trip