William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.
William Lewis Safir
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
Ed Belfour
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
Barry Ritholtz
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Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
B. Kevin Turner
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
Hank Aaron
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Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
Walt Mossberg
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
Earl Weaver
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
Gabe Newell
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
Jack Gleeson
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
Aaron Patzer
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
Edgar Wright
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
Walter Cronkite
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
