Mike Quigley Quotes

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Mike Quigley

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AccountabilityBetterTransparency

What you want to watch are the lenders, not the borrowers. The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It's up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

Michael Burry

GreatYouLoseWantWillOut

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

John Wooden

FriendshipFriendMarriageDoingYou

I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what to do and what to invest in.

Steve Jurvetson

RespectPeopleGroupDecision-Making

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Tristram Stuart

NumbersAnimalsDeerWildEatFail

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

Travis Beacham

KidUpGiantsInvolvedLevelReally

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.

Tony Fadell

ExperienceDesignAppleUnderstand

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Tom Hanks

MyselfWifeI AmMeSayingMy Own

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

Robin Gibb

HomeKnowMoreAbroadAny

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

Michael Pollan

FoodThinkBetterYouIndustryWell

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.

Michael Pollan

CowGrassOutPlanetThingsProtein

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

Jonathan Franzen

WorkFamilyLooking BackBookYou

It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.

Douglas Alexander

FutureMeSocietyBetterLiving

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