Quotes 9681 till 9700 of 26406.
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If you're just a nice guy - you don't let people walk on you - but if you're just a nice guy and treat people right, good things happen.
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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
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If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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If you've never wept and want to, have a child.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
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If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
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