Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
-
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
-
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
-
'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
-
I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
-
When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
-
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
-
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
-
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
-
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
-
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
-
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
-
I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
-
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
-
Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.
-
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
-
I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
-
Stumbling is not falling.
-
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
-
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
-
It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.
-
The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
-
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
