#amp

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#become #companies #competitive #corporate #corporate america

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bottles #champagne #flowing #gets #hundreds

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #been #capital #even #example

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#after #campaign #comes #down #every

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#always #boy #camp #celebrity #films

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #for example #greater #health #houses

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anyway #beethoven #compose #done #example

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#breed #campbell #check #encouragement #got

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#calls #characteristic #endeavor #endure #face

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example