All Quotes

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
‐‐ Merton Miller

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.
‐‐ Peter Blair Henry

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
‐‐ Steve Breen

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
‐‐ James D. Watson

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.
‐‐ John C. Mather

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
‐‐ Alice Walker

As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
‐‐ James Dyson

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
‐‐ Brian Krzanich

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
‐‐ Minnie Driver

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
‐‐ Charles Glover Barkla

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
‐‐ Yelena Baturina

As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'
‐‐ John Delaney

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take - not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.
‐‐ Richard Branson

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
‐‐ Eric Ries

As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
‐‐ Travis Kalanick

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.
‐‐ Mike McCue

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.
‐‐ Fabrice Grinda

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.
‐‐ Daymond John

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.
‐‐ Daymond John

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
‐‐ Les Wexner

As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can't seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer's domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what's given just 'cause you're getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate.
‐‐ John Ridley

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
‐‐ Mark Twain

As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
‐‐ Paige Craig

As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it.
‐‐ Charlie White

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.
‐‐ John Darnielle

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.
‐‐ Alfred Lin

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
‐‐ Zoe Tapper

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
‐‐ Fred Frith