Maelle Gavet Quotes

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

Maelle Gavet

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • Single

• The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • End

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Design

• You have good days and bad days.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Doing

• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Business
  • Day
  • Oil

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Time
  • Business
  • Best

• So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Live
  • Bad

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Success

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Common
  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • More
  • Ourselves

• I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Single