I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?”
“If a company cannot generate profit, if cannot sustain itself and continue to create value for people.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“If a company gambles on leverage, it'll probably go bankrupt on leverage.”
“If a company is advising workers to take drugs to perform their job, they probably should not be working there.”
“If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.”
“If a company isn't online, it's as though it doesn't exist.”
Source: Simba's Content Matrix
“If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of disruptive innovation. And those disruptive innovations will typically grow to the point where they do cause some pain for leading companies. But most disruptive innovations create substantial new growth before they cause that pain.”
“If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.”
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
“If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.”
Source: Critical Affairs: A Composer's Journal
“If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?”
“If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!”
“If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.”
“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
Source: The Robots of Dawn
“If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.”
“If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.”
“If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.”
“If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.”
Source: Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold REAL Conversations that Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
“If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.”
“If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.”
“If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions
“If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!”
“If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.”
“If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment that are apparent are tied up in armaments, and if that country is a major exporter of arms, and its industrial fabric is dependent on them, then it would be in that country's interests to ensure that it always had a market. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters to make sure that there is always a war going on somewhere.”
Source: Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and what Women are Worth
“If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.”
“If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?”
“If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!”
“If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange rate. If it's an unattractive place, it will have a relatively low exchange rate. Those are the fundamentals that determine the exchange rate in a floating exchange rate system.”
“If a country is constantly being crushed under the burden of suffering instead of experiencing the beauties of the world and life, know that that country is ruled by either stupid ignorant or cunning traitors, or worse, by both!”
“If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.”
“If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!”
“If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.”
“If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!”
“If a country is run by a leader very poor in intelligence and if this leader is supported by a majority very rich in ignorance, then a very intelligent opposition is needed to save that country!”
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”
“If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.”
“If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.”
“If a couple doesn’t practice mindfulness and does not try to understand their own and each other’s suffering, they won’t go far. They may continue to live together for a long time even when they’re not happy. They may stay together for the sake of the children, or because they don’t want to complicate their lives. There are many couples like that—they’re together but they’re not happy. There are other couples who can’t support being in such a situation and so they separate or divorce.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.”
“If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.”
“If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?”
“If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.”
“If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.”
Source: The Analects
“If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.”
“If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source.”
“If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
“If a criminal becomes a politician, it's the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too is the fault of the citizens.”