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James P. Gorman Quotes

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.

James P. Gorman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 14, 1958

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Success People Think Way More Out

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Change Service Thought Name Sketch

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.

Nature Government Taxes Theft Well

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

John Robert Seeley

Virtue Safe Enthusiastic

Middle school was my most awkward stage. I switched schools after the sixth grade after having gone to the same school for six years with the same group of 40 kids. It was a shock. I reinvented myself. I experimented with different styles, different groups of friends, and different types of music and not knowing how to be cool.

Music Myself School Cool Not Knowing

You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.

Travis Kalanick

Reality You Bend Break Cannot

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Good Live Trust Money Value You

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Love Change Music You Keep Just

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Work End You Write Critics Analysis

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

Never Over Been Anywhere Scenes

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

Walk Strange Point Where Anxious

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Leadership Feel You Know Touch See

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Myself Curious People Think Thinking

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