“I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.” Quote by Jim Watt
“I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how to succeed in business. There are three legs: Take care of the customer, have a little fun, make a little money. If you don't do that, it doesn't work, but if you do, it comes together easily.” IfsLittlesCareTogetherThreeFunSucceedOfficeLegsTake CareCustomersSymbolsMilkCabinetsStoolsLittle MoneyThree Legs Author:Larry H. Miller
“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.” SeemsImpossibleAbsurdVersesTranslations Author:Victor Hugo
“All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.” SeemsImpossibleTasksAccomplishTranslate Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.” IfsMenFeelsMadeCharacterAudienceGunFemaleUncomfortableVillainKill MeMonstrousHeroinesIdentifyingMen Bashing Author:Callie Khouri
“Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.” CareStudiosDon't CareCorporationsGiants Author:Callie Khouri
“I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.” FeelsWritingI CanAuthorityFlawedVeracity Author:Callie Khouri
“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.” NeedsLastsCompanyTeamBuildingFinanceExecutivesPartnershipComponentsStrategic Author:Michael J. Saylor
“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.” YearsEndsSuccessPeaceFreedomProgressMilitaryVictoryErrorsDefeatPursuitTrialsAbandonedAnnoyingRelaxedSetbackBeing At PeaceAchieving PeaceVictory And DefeatVictory Defeat Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.” StatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesFoundationPursueChineseApplesDigitalMeant To BeGoogleHarvardState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentMitChinese GovernmentGadflies Author:Michael J. Saylor
“In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.” MayEffortOriginalsBe GoodAdequateTranslationsReproductionApproximation Book:The Life of Goethe Source: The Life of Goethe
