William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

William Francis Buckley

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• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Money
  • Something
  • Worth

• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Money
  • Song
  • Single

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Business
  • You
  • Dress

• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Never
  • Determination

• When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Car
  • Ignore

• Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period.

  

  Marty Allen
  • Period
  • Lucky
  • County

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Body

• I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.

  

  John Starks
  • Pretty
  • Fierce

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Friends
  • Earth
  • Change

• Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Money
  • Business
  • Enthusiasm