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Gerald Chertavian Quotes

When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

Gerald Chertavian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1965

Topics

Opportunity Problem Solution Young

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Me Wish You Said Wood I Wish

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Conversation Planned Hold Where Whom

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

Work Value Know Never Always Bring

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

School Control You Nothing Europe

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

Knowledge History World Internet

Terrorists don't heed 'gun-free' signs.

Signs Heed Terrorists

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.

Life Best People Small Reading Way

Florida is nice, but Texas is my favorite state.

Texas Nice Florida Favorite State

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

Education Parents Farm Kids Were

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

Space Environment Earth More Surface

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Business Myself Creative Artist Know

I am not the sort of person who divests myself of everything that came before I came to Australia. I want to take all the knowledge and experiences I gained when I was in England and put it at the service of Australia because I have to bring something to Australia - not just money but myself.

Miriam Margolyes

Knowledge Myself Service Money I Am

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