Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.Ambrose Bierce
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
Barry Jenkins -
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
Farrah Fawcett -
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
Patricia Heaton
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland -
You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
Dana Brunetti -
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
Dan Pfeiffer
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
Adam Hamilton -
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner -
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Pamela Anderson -
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown -
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden -
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan DeCarlo
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Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.
Nikki S. Lee -
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
Dan Quayle -
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
John Corbett -
Stay busy and take care of your own business.
Eddy Arnold -
Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
Ambrose Bierce