Tavis Smiley Quotes

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Tavis Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1964

Topics

ChildFreeCapitalismThinkGrow

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

Meghan Trainor

BusinessMusicParentsMeFestivals

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Smokey Robinson

MusicHistoryPersonMotownGreatest

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

Robin S. Sharma

PassionLookingLawyerMission

In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.

Marvin Ammori

FacePotentialBetterMoreSoftware

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

Mireille Guiliano

WomenBusinessSuitsFindSneakers

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

Joshua Bell

WriteSortI WriteComposer

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Douglas Rushkoff

WorkHomeTechnologyComputersEarly

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.

China Machado

StartFaceWorryFindingYouStop

My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

MotherLegalSexSheFirstRight

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

Christian Louboutin

ShoesI AmKingPeopleSayPainful

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

Brett Hull

FightMindLookJust BecauseSkating

Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama's life in any position of influence. You can't do it... Barack Obama detests this nation as founded. He has zero respect for the founding documents.

Brad Thor

LifeRespectMeInfluenceYouZero

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