I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”
“If you owe too much on American Express,
and your Diner's Club notes are too hard,
take a loan on your Visa,
and pay it off with your MasterCard!”
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
“If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.”
“If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.”
“If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.”
“If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.”
“If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.”
“If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.”
“If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.”
Source: The Forbidden Circle
“If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.”
Source: How to Make Money in Stocks and Success Stories
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
“If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.”
“If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.”
“If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.”
“If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.”
“If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.”
“If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.”
“If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.”
“If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.”
“If you own the story, you can write every chapter in the book.
Own your life; write the story the way you want it to read.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If you own this story you get to write the ending.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.”
“If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.”
“If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years.”
“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.”
“If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache”
“If you paint a portrait of someone, it's a canvas covered with paint. It's not the actual person; it's an illusion (the lie). But the painting reveals more (the truths) about that person than if you met them. The artist's role is to help us see these hidden truths.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.”
“If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!”
“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”
“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
“If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.”
“If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.”
“If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.”
“If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.”
“If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state. ~Michael Vey”
Source: Michael Vey Books One and Two: The Prisoner of Cell 25; Rise of the Elgen
“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.”
“If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.”
“If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.”
“If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.”
“If you pay attention to life the older you get some of the most disappointing things you will ever learn will be about yourself, but that's OK because that will be the moment when change can begin if you let it.”
“If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.”
Source: Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
“If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If you pay attention to the voices in your head, you will fail to hear the voice of your heart and soul (your intuition).”
Source: On Becoming Restored
“If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.”
“If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.”
“If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.”
Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything