Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Tina Brown

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Irwin Thomas

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Wentworth Miller

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

Alexander Farrell

The (past) studies that reported a negative net energy assumed one should ignore co-products.

Brian Kernighan

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Ben Elliot

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Bill Hader

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Justin Pascoe

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.

Carrie Underwood

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Sidney Govou

We've made a big step towards the title.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,