Thomas G. Stemberg Quotes

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

Thomas G. Stemberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 18, 1949 - October 23, 2015

Topics

BusinessTimeSchoolPeopleMeGo

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.

Joel McHale

DreamsYour DreamsLieYouDream

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

John Grisham

LawyerPrisonClientsMy OwnFault

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

BirthdayMotherChildrenTimeSmall

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

BirdWalkOceanManFlyFish

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

Robin Gibb

NewLivingNeverHimWithoutThings

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Robert Teeter

AloneToughThinkPartyCountry

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

Michele Bachmann

HappinessPeopleMeToughVoting

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitchel Resnick

ScienceCollegeYouNeverOwnJust

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

PeopleLawThinkImportantMore

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

Jonathan Zittrain

WorkEnoughNewOldAbilityMarket

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.

Craig Federighi

CreativePeopleViewSometimesMost

To me, I think of the '70s as being this glorious decade where I discovered who I was and discovered all these amazing things... punk rock, electro music, fashion, all of that.

Boy George

MusicAmazingMeFashionThinkRock

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