Robert Pozen Quotes
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
Quotes to Explore
-
First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
-
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
-
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
-
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
-
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
-
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
-
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
-
I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
-
I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
-
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
-
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
-
People would pay money to work at CNN.
-
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
-
I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
-
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
-
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
-
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
-
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.
-
They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
-
Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
-
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
-
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
