Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. C. Forbes

That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

B. C. Forbes

Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs....

B. C. Forbes

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.

B. C. Forbes

Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

Asafa Powell

From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.

Asafa Powell

I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.

Asafa Powell

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

Asafa Powell

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

Asafa Powell

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

Ashley Benson

I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

Ashleigh Brilliant

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

Ashleigh Brilliant

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

Ashleigh Brilliant

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

Armie Hammer

I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.

Arlo Guthrie

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though

Arlen Specter

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Aprilynne Pike

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

April Winchell

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

Apolo Ohno

On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

Apolo Ohno

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

Apolo Ohno

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

Apolo Ohno

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

Antonio Banderas

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Antonio Banderas

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

Ben Shapiro

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Ben Stein

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Ben Stein

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

Ben Stein

I am scared of running out of money.

Beah Richards

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

Bayard Taylor

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

Bear Bryant

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

Bear Bryant

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

Bear Bryant

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.