Quotes with big-scale

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  • Bernard L. Schwartz In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Individual investors beware: If you're constantly worried about a crash, you're probably making some big mistakes - and losing a lot of money in the process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Philip Roth Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
    Cosmos (1980) 98
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brendan Gill It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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  • Nancy Reagan It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Al Sharpton It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Charles A. Garfield It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bille August It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Shaw It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Andy Warhol It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bobby Farrelly It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Beny Steinmetz It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
    Beny Steinmetz
    Israeli businessman
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  • Calista Flockhart It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bill Drayton It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • John Wooden It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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