Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

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OpportunityGreatYourselfChance

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

John Cornyn

HealthWarLawWorldCareNew

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope

JourneyWorldGoBeyondOutTell

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

GoodWordsPeopleWhyReasonOver

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

Amor Towles

AgeEyesMyselfMeThinkSomeone

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Martin Scorsese

KindnessLiveCompassionPeopleLook

I'm a fry lover.

Michelle Obama

LoverFry

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.

Mick Cornett

FitnessPeopleWalkingWindowsMore

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

ChangeGreatPeopleSocietyLookUp

I have always been communicative. I can't help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don't like straight answers.

Mohammad Azharuddin

PeopleHelpSometimesMisunderstood

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Diane Hendricks

BackGoWantBecomeBasicsNation

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Clayton M. Christensen

GoodBusinessSchoolManagement

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

PeopleMeWinThinkDoingTrying

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