Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
-
I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
-
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
-
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
-
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
-
I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
-
I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.
-
I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
-
My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
-
I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.
-
I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.
-
For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.
-
Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.
-
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
-
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
-
Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.
-
It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
-
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
-
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
-
Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.
-
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
-
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
-
My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
