#lever

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#more #patience #tenacity #than #their

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. ↗

— Neil Innes

#desperately #girl #go #guys #handle

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. ↗

— Les Baxter

#clever #conquered #i #spanish #thing

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#get #ignorance #interesting #leverage #pretty

There is no bore like a clever bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#clever #like

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#agree #because #competition #could #cover