Les Wexner Quotes

A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

Les Wexner

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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Think
- Me
- College
I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Harland Williams
- Home
- Start
- Talking
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Haile Selassie
- Time
- World
- True
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Abdolkarim Soroush
- Small
- Problems
- Down
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

Kacey Musgraves
- People
- Music
- Country
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.

Gavin Hood
- You
- Focus
- Things