Famous Quotes & Sayings

James C. Collins

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

James C. Collins

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

James C. Collins

The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

James A. Baldwin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Jacqueline Winspear

Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key; you get in a car and you're up the road. And yet with this particular car, it was a five-step process to start it. So how do I let the reader know that?

Christopher Hitchens

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Gary Bauer

Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

Fujio Mitarai

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

Fuzzy Zoeller

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

Christina Perri

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

Chris Shipley

A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.

Fran Lebowitz

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

Frans Lanting

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Jeanette Winterson

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

Jeff Ament

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

George Eliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Herbert

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

Christian Slater

The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.

Christa Miller

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

Chris Tucker

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

Chris Johnson

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

George W. Bush

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

George Carlin

How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Felicity Jones

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

Feist

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

Eugene Mirman

Confidence is the key to virtually everything. It's just deciding that you're qualified because once you decide you're qualified, everything else becomes very easy.

Francis Chan

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

Jeff Sessions

This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican and Democrat leaders, and, in effect, do so in defense of the legitimate interest of people who make less than median income in America, is the key to victory.

Jeff Hawkins

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Goldie Hawn

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

Homaro Cantu

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Patience is the key to any battle.