Benjamin Franklin Fairless Quotes

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Up
- Country
- Art
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
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

Adam D'Angelo
- Time
- Done
- Meetings
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

T. C. Boyle
- People
- Up
- Time
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

Samina Baig
- Women
- Help
- Desire
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

Carine Roitfeld
- Good
- America
- Think