Thomas Peterffy Quotes

I don't think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it's too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.

Thomas Peterffy

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BusinessServiceFocusSimpleValue

I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.

Joanna Lumley

MarriageFatherMeGossipStopOut

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

Sondra Radvanovsky

HomeMyselfPeopleEatingAthlete

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

ManEffortWinDriveWillPainful

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.

Rivers Cuomo

LoveMusicHeartPeopleMeSick

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

Robyn

MusicMarketingImportantJust

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

Roselyn Sanchez

HeartKnowUnderstandHorrorFilm

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

Louis Navellier

Stock MarketCallMarketStocks

I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.

Chrissy Teigen

MomWeirdAmericanFishWishKnow

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

Coolio

ResponsibilityThinkHumanSeeJust

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

Clara Hughes

PassionHeartListeningSucceedNow

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

Brian Cox

WorkGoodMoneyMeThoughtDoing

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Philip Johnson

ChangeChange The WorldYourselfYou

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