Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Payne

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

William Hague

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Zig Ziglar

It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important.

Kathy Sierra

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

Eric Hoffer

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

Eric Bell

Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.

Epictetus

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Marvin Bower

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

W. S. Gilbert

I thought there would be some naked women walking around.

Ron Carlson

Get down, get naked, get savage.

Warren Buffett

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

Samuel L. Jackson

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

Winston Churchill

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Zebulon Pike

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Kenneth Cole

Underneath it allYou're naked,

Simon Wiesenthal

The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Mike Tice

You can't tell watching with the naked eye,

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Vladimir Putin

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Tony Leon

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Leah Rush

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

David Nussbaum

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Clay Richards

This is interesting. Usually corruption doesn't even come up in polls.

Susan MacManus

Any time you have a corruption story that touches you in any way, it has an impact on your campaign.