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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Doing Debt Embrace Awe Hiding Enron

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Down Way Write Things Share Justify

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

Childhood Bad Birth Starting Stuff

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

Life Nature Woman Me Energy Meet

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

Simple People Talking You Why Just

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

Marriage Believe Worth You I Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, and we know it's the right thing to do.

Robert J. Fisher

Good Business Responsibility Know

From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

Hate Anger Frustration Story Hurt

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Stanley Hauerwas

End Common Sense Liberty Belief Then

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Sidney Blumenthal

Growth Government You Fall Create

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

Opportunity Entrepreneur Person

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

Happiness Today I Am Me Sometimes

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

Time Light Me Miami Skin Three

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