Allan H. Meltzer Quotes

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Allan H. Meltzer

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Mean
  • Like
  • Go

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  

  LaToya London
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Ground
  • Cohesion

• The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • President
  • Lord
  • Demands

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Enough
  • Books

• When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Vision

• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Bad
  • Community
  • Failure

• The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Revolution
  • Capitalism

• Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

  

  Allan H. Meltzer
  • Failure
  • Capitalism
  • Losses