Bob Burg Quotes

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

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• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

  

  Gary Player
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Experience

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Feeling
  • Financial
  • Independence

• Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Talent
  • Talk
  • Toughness

• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Me
  • Class
  • Citizenship

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Politics
  • Audience
  • Cinema

• The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Goal

• One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Party

• Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Poverty

• The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Time
  • Work
  • Rest

• As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.

  

  Betsy Hodges

• The local dudes who knew that my dad owned a studio would say, 'Ahh, dude is spoiled,' and this and that. But we didn't abuse it at all. I'd always ask if we could use the studio first, and if our dad didn't want us there he would tell us, and that was that. But I definitely tried to get down there as often as I could.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Dad
  • Abuse

• We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Gold
  • Economy
  • Trade

• In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Conflict

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Generosity
  • Creates
  • Ships