Chapman Cohen Quotes

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

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• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Dance
  • Theatre

• Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Driving

• But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Famous
  • Move
  • Circles

• He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Prejudices

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stop

• A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Game
  • Hours

• In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Case
  • Closer
  • Dozen

• Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Style
  • Vision

• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Death

• Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Business
  • Society
  • Better

• So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Sins

• Be a voice not an echo.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Voice
  • Echo

• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Deserve
  • Big
  • Politicians

• It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Deserve
  • Fortune
  • Difficulty