Quotes 201 till 220 of 222.
-
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
-
When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
-
When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
-
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
-
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
-
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
-
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
-
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
-
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
-
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
-
You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
-
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
-
You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
-
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
-
You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
-
Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.
-
… I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
-
A game is a closed field, a ring of death with sex at the centre, and performing is the only game I've got.
-
Look, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our money, and on top of that they have loaned the money to us and we actually pay them interest now on money. We owe China and Japan each $1.4 trillion.
The Economist
All top-performing famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 11)
