“As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.” ChallengesTaughtCostFilledPreparedBe PreparedMy FutureGymnast Book:Off Balance: A Memoir Source: Off Balance: A Memoir
“Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of pressure that's put on every astronaut to just make sure that he or she understands exactly what to do, exactly when to do it, and is trained and prepared to carry it out.” CountryEarthMistakeCareersCommunicationCostScientistPressurePreparedMissionsExperimentsRuinsMaking MistakesCrewAstronautSatellites Author:Sally Ride
“If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtOpinionSacrificeHugeCostPreparedBe PreparedGreat ArtThink Of YouPersonal Sacrifice Author:Romola Garai
“I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.” ThinkingWorldCostManagementStrategyStructurePreparedVery GoodInvestorsPassiveProposeEntrepreneurial Author:Bill Ackman
“We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.” PayHalfCostPreparedBe Prepared Author:H. L. Mencken
“I had to put the word out to people that I didn't cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at home. Because that's the assumption: "Well, he lives in America now, we can't afford him, we won't bother."” PeopleWellsHomeAmericaCostFortunePreparedBotherAssumption Author:Guy Pearce
“Everybody is talking about synergies. You've got to take out every cost you possibly can. You have to position yourself as your services change.You have to think about in five years from now what is going to happen technologically to you. And then you do have to think about M&A or your balance sheet, and you have to think about everything in the context of, "Am I prepared to meet that challenge?".” ThinkingYearsHappensChallengesTalkingFivePositionBalanceCostPreparedFive YearsSheetsSynergyBalance Sheets Author:Ken Moelis
“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.” IfsDealsCostPreparedStriveVariousAppropriateBe PreparedFlexibilityFlexibleThinking Flexibly Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
“But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.” MenLifeEyeCostLogicEarsPreparedConclusionAbstractHis EyesJustify Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky