All Quotes

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
‐‐ Andrew Mason

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
‐‐ Anne Sweeney

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.
‐‐ Ricky Van Veen

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
‐‐ Roman Polanski

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
‐‐ Dallas Willard

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.
‐‐ Pia Zadora

If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

If you have a harmonious society where people within the family are living in harmony... knowing what their responsibilities and duties are, and knowing how to resolve their issues and their conflicts without violence, then violence against women will be reduced, and women will feel they have a voice.
‐‐ Rula Ghani

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
‐‐ Howard Gossage

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
‐‐ Ernesto Bertarelli

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.
‐‐ Michael King

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
‐‐ Lamorne Morris

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
‐‐ John Mackey

If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.
‐‐ Jennifer Yuh Nelson

If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

If you have a pair of shoes that hurt, don't wear them. The ugliest thing that I think I've seen is a woman walk like her feet hurt. It's awful, so make sure your shoes fit.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
‐‐ Vicky McClure

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.
‐‐ Lucy Alibar

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.
‐‐ David Russell

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
‐‐ Pat Riley

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.
‐‐ David Icke

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.
‐‐ Robert Higgs

If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.
‐‐ Maureen McCormick

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

If you have a problem, you have to recognize it and solve it.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
‐‐ Scott Adams

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
‐‐ Bryn Terfel

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
‐‐ Jack Welch

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
‐‐ Manmohan Singh

If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci