Kenneth Langone Quotes

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

Kenneth Langone

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GoodBusinessGreatJobPeopleMe

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

Melanie Lynskey

LifeMy LifeAnythingWhereBeen

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

Max von Sydow

TheatreYouTelevisionCountryMovie

In the past, I had these really high-tech boardshorts.

John John Florence

PastIn The PastHigh-TechReally

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Robert Harris

FatherMotherTimeSchoolNewsLeft

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

Steven Gerrard

DeserveOddsWhereAgainstUsWere

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

Robert Downey, Jr.

LifeFreedomMyselfWantAheadGive

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Robyn Hitchcock

GoodTimeYouRealizeFirstPretty

I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!

Mary Balogh

WorldBookVoiceThinkEnoughKnow

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

Monica Seles

DayFlyingChristmasNeverMeanDid

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

Mo Ibrahim

TodayWarVoiceDrivingYouRules

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

Jose Aldo

HistoryMoneyLegacyChampionThink

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Craig Bruce

WorldIllusionRealConsciousness

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