Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.
Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.
There's a lot of money to pay for this. . . the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years. . . We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.