“My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.” PeopleWantFunFourAmountFairsCriteria Author:Stuart Rose
“I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.” PeopleMeanIdeasFourFansMonthsAmountTheaterAccessNo IdeaOverwhelmingMailAmazedBroadwayFind MeFan Mail Author:Sonya Walger
“You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.” ThinkingInspirationalEnjoyHoursFourAmountOffersTenGood ThingsProductiveFourteenFooling Yourself Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?” LittlesPersonsLinesPoorPovertyFourAmountEconomicsRaisesPopulationCorruptionSpendingBillionsWelfareOfficialsPercentagesAnnuals Author:Robert Higgs
“The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.” IfsDifferentChanceDoubtFourRiskDangerousAmountNeededManagementInstitutionsUniversityFinancialFinanceThanksDataImmenseMasterpieceCollectingHarvardRisk ManagementFinancial InstitutionsKennethMaryland Author:Martin Wolf
“Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.” YearsShowsMightActorsFiveFourTelevisionSeriousMonthsAmountSixSix MonthsTelevision ShowsAnthology Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.” IfsKnowsI CanBodyMovingEnergyHoursFourMeditationColdAmountYogaTwentiesHotHot Yoga Author:Jason Mraz
“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentShowsMotherHoursDarkRoomsFourFrontsTvsAmountSittingRadioMicrophonesTeresaDark Room Author:Wendy Williams
“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.” YearsBookThreeReadingFictionFourCarAmountBedFairsNonfictionDesksBack And Forth Author:James Patterson
“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.” HumansThreeHuman BeingsFourFoodAmountBenefitsCookingWineGlassesIllnessExcellentCulinaryRemedyPreservationSmall Amounts Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma
“Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.” ThreeFourWeekAmountRedYeahCancerConvincedMeatLambsSteakRed Meat Author:Robin Roberts
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.” PeopleYearsWellsLooksSaidStoriesGuyFourMediaAmountNewsCaughtPlusFour YearsThis GuyCorrectionsNews Media Author:Jayson Blair
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” YearsTwoStatesLightEnergyHoursUnitedEffortMillionsUnited StatesFourFrontsAmountRedStandingHorseTwentiesAverageEnginesUp And DownAutomobileDays Of The YearRed Lights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.” NationsFourTalentAmountScientistInstrumentsPlusSheerInventorStatesmenFranklinPhilanthropist Author:Charlie Munger
“In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.” WorldWayMeanPersonsJobsThreeCareersFourAmountThese DaysDownsizing Author:Michelle Visage