Michael Heisley Quotes

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

Michael Heisley

• Business
• Companies
• Operations
• Flip

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Try

• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Adventure

• I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Interesting
  • Change
  • Season

• I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Think
  • Stress

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

  

  Larry David
  • Sometimes
  • Actions
  • Some

• As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

  

  George Galloway

• Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business. You have to embrace the future.

  

  David Carey
  • Business
  • Future
  • Enemy

• I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Life
  • Free
  • Rest

• I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Family

• I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Business
  • Companies
  • Operations