Gerry Schwartz Quotes

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Gerry Schwartz

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BusinessMeInvestingInterestSense

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

Jenny Lewis

LifeMomentSongInterestingMy Life

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.

Amitava Kumar

AgeTravelFlightEventsBurning

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Stephen Curry

PeopleMeYouRightOutComing

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

DayDeathDieAlwaysArgueSome

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Tom Hanks

HeroPeopleVillainThinkChoose

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

Mary Gauthier

FatherMotherMeStoryKnowShe

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

Mike Posner

GreatTimeTryingMindfulnessLast

There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

Martin Rees

ScienceDoorsOpenEthicalGapMany

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

Lucy Lawless

TreatIdiotYouFindEveryoneOut

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

Luke Evans

ChildhoodChildMomLovelyBeing

I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people.

Lorraine Adams

LifeHabitPeopleMindMeStart

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Liz Vassey

TiredPeopleDoingYouActingOld

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