Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Charles Kettering

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

Anita Brookner

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Russell Simmons

Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.

Russell Simmons

In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.

Richard Branson

I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.

Peter Drucker

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Peter Drucker

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

John F. Kennedy

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

Dietrich Mateschitz

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Eddie Vedder

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Ricky Ford

I don't feel like we have the marketing package, ... We're going to have to look at starting salary.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.