I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.”
“If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going to be no innovation. So an investment in Microsoft is a bet that the operating system is going to stay the same, it won't be replaced by Linux, Google Docs, or a mobile platform like iOS or Android.”
“If you invest in thinking, you can produce ideas”
“If you invest in your mind, you are sure to back the returns on your investment.”
“If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will be a much bigger success than you otherwise would have been. There truly is POWER in words.”
“If you invest the time to understand the customer better than they know themselves, if you know the things they want or need even if they can't articulate it, you can begin to develop a good sense as to where there really are unmet needs in the market.”
“If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you invest your time in practice, it can make you an expert”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you invest your time in skills, it can make you skillful”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.”
Source: Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China
“If you invest your time, you cannot live a life of mediocrity”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.”
“If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)
“If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”
“If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.”
“If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.”
“If you irritate the wound, Perikles, no man
in our city will enjoy the festivities.
These men were washed under by the thudding seawaves,
and the hearts in our chest are swollen with pain.
Yet against this incurable misery, the gods
give us the harsh medicine of endurance.
Sorrows come and go, friend, and now they strike us
and we look with horror on the bleeding sores,
yet tomorrow others will mourn the dead. I tell you,
hold back your feminine tears and endure.”
“If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.”
“If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.”
Source: Today's Best Nonfiction
“If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant.”
“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”
“If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.”
“If you judge a person by the company they keep, then I'm retarded.”
“If you judge a tree by its height alone, you will miss out on its beauty.”
“If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.”
Source: Your Faith is Your Fortune
“If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“If you judge the character, you cant play it.”
“If you judge, investigate.”
“If you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.”
Source: The Vile Village
“If you jump into a market when everyone else is doing the same thing, you're probably too late. On the other hand, if you get into a market early, when it's fundamentally undervalued, then wait for it to become extremely overvalued, and sell once a true top has been established, you should do very well.”
Source: Guide To Investing in Gold & Silver: Protect Your Financial Future
“If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.”
“If you jump to conclusions about someone based on limited, proscribed interactions, you close the door to the possibility of deepening your connection.”
Source: The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They Like
“If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.”
Source: The Interruption of Everything
“If you jump, you best jump far.”
“If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero.”
Source: Ziggy, Stardust and Me
“If you just become some new cruel people, because you have been treated with cruelty by some old cruel people, and start treating others with cruelty, then they will end up becoming the new cruel people who will lead to many more generations of cruelty and violence. So, the cycle must break with you. Break the cycle my friend - break the cycle of violence, break the cycle of racism, break the cycle of bigotry. That's the only way all humans can live in peace.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.”
“If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke.”
“If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.”
“If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.”
“If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.”
“If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.”
“If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.”
“If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.”
“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.”
“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”
“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”