Billy Kennedy Quotes

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

Billy Kennedy

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • War
  • Parents

• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Internet

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

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

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Business
  • You
  • Dress

• Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Cute

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Business
  • Chicago
  • Down

• I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Great
  • School
  • Business

• A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Business
  • Where
  • Last

• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Kids
  • American
  • Parents

• I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Parents
  • Proud
  • Close

• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Better
  • Brand

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • God
  • Ocean

• I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

  

  Alan Davies
  • Car
  • Journey

• I generally always eat what I want. I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher. I like healthy food and prefer that anyways, but if I want pizza or a can of Coca-Cola every once in a while, I'm going to have it. I just try to have a few slices, and that's it.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Work
  • Food
  • Pizza

• Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

  

  Logan Henderson Big Time Rush
  • Flying

• By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

  

  Billy Kennedy
  • Business
  • Parents
  • Athletes