Imran Amed Quotes

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

Imran Amed

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GoodHeartGreatManagementYou

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

Robert H. Grubbs

FatherMotherHomeConstructionBorn

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Jeff Bezos

FutureWindWorldStrategyYouNow

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

Amber Le Bon

SmileAgeGreatFashionBetterLook

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Amory Lovins

EfficiencyImprovingKeepCheaper

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

Roger Taylor

YouBoxRadioThroughAnythingGet

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

Janet Weiss

RideBikePeopleUnderdogThinkYou

Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

Demetrious Johnson

WorkWalkJobManMeGo

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

Douglas Brinkley

TodayHistoryWarWorldFreeEnd

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Wole Soyinka

LiveWorldHumanityMatterWhere

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Pierre Laval

YouFindPlaceNewWillEurope

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Shane Filan

TogetherTeamFinancialLegalMonths

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

Tina Brown

BusinessJournalismMoreLogistics

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