Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Richard Branson

Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

Richard Branson

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

Richard Branson

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Richard Branson

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

Richard Branson

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Swami Vivekananda

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Swami Vivekananda

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Swami Vivekananda

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Swami Vivekananda

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Timur Bekmambetov

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

Tim Hetherington

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Tim Heidecker

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Stephen Fry

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

Sonya Walger

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

Ruth Asawa

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Ruth Ann Minner

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Ross Bleckner

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

Ron Livingston

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

Roger Penrose

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Roger Corman

Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

Roger von Oech

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Roger von Oech

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Roger von Oech

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Roger Daltrey

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Sam Shepard

I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.

Sam Shepard

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Rush Limbaugh

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.

Rush Limbaugh

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Ray Manzarek

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.