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Michael Ashcroft Quotes

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

Michael Ashcroft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: british
Birth: March 4, 1946

Topics

Business Will Fact Alter Proper

When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.

Live You Shy Head Own Your

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Day Politics People Promises Early

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Marriage Women Think Never Faithful

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Work People Reading Think Meet Will

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

Life Humble Humility Empathy People

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

History Time School People Black

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Space Set Giant Built Madman

When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

Job Detail Control Attention Want

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Success Failure Process Learn View

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

Ego Doing Know Interest Just Maybe

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

Family Great Trust Support People

It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early.

Chelsea Handler

Me Wake Up Early Up Going Get

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