“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativeGratitudeDrugClaimsSellsAddWanderExpertsBe CreativeGreat Idea Author:Hal Elrod
“Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.” PeopleTryingStyleClaimsSellsPaintAgentsCopiesRepresentativesPublishersExclusivePlagiarism Author:LeRoy Neiman
“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.” IfsSeemsCommonAttitudeOpinionClaimsPaidManagementSellsPropertyFinanceCorporatePhrasesOwnersInvestorsSuperintendents Author:Benjamin Graham
“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.” PeopleMenWorldGivingTryingWellsHandsThreeCoursesLinesClearProgressOne ThingEconomicBecomingGiving UpClaimsSellsTricksSocialismCardsDevelopingEmpoweringPardonHand In HandBecoming MoreRejectingPardon MeEconomic ProgressCard Tricks Author:Ronald Reagan
“Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.” BookFoundDifficultSimpleNumbersActivityClaimsSellsComplicatedCommandCorporateFeaturesGuaranteesBusiness SuccessLarge Numbers Book:Why Most Things Fail Source: Why Most Things Fail
“When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams it and imagines it and does everything to get there, but you can't ever expect to sell 8, 10, 12, 20 million albums. It becomes this thing that you really have to figure out as you go.” DoeDreamMillionsImagineFiguresBandClaimsSellsAlbumsStakes Author:Edward Kowalczyk
“When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7” IfsThinkingDoeUsedBrainWindClaimsSellsAcceptedCupsChairsChapters Author:Sharon Kay Penman