Leonard Lauder Quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

Leonard Lauder

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Think
  • Artist

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Lord

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Born
  • Sacrifice
  • Achievement

• Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Going
  • Jokes

• I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Beer

• The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Civil Rights

• I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • School
  • High

• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Successful

• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Pain

• My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Mind
  • Asset

• I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

  

  Jim DeMint

• Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

  

  John Witherspoon
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Trust

• I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

  

  Leonard Lauder