The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.
We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.
First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made.
Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.
Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.
That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice. . . They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
I get a friend to travel with me. . . I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?