Chiefs Quotes

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Average, Feelings, Share

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• Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Law, Apathy

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Children, Devil, Agents

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

  Charles Wagner

  Simple, Men, Wish

  Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Excellence, Fine

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Low Income, Poverty, Problem

  "Public papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller: fifty-third governor of the State of New York".

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• The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

  Michael Porter

  Organization, Leader, Ceo

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• Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

  Writing, Authorship, Masterpiece

  "Essay on Poetry" by John Sheffield,

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• The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Time, Psychology, Information

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Decision, Quality, Commander In Chief

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• The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

  Jacques Barzun

  Science, Causes, Anguish

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  Adam Clymer

  Book, Two, Reason

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• I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

  Jane Byrne

  Responsibility, Accepting, Chief Executives

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• The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

  Hippocrates

  Writing, Editing, Plain Language

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• Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

  Richard Widmark

  Two Sides, Car, Would Be

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• Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

  William Henry Ashley

  Government, Friendly, Degrees

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• My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

  Jack Higgins

  Ira, Looks, Staff

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• In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

  Norman Lamm

  Biblical, Study, Judaism

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

  James Bovard

  Government, Shepherds, Hard

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• Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Practice, Justice, One Day

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• I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

  Black Kettle

  Giving, Soldier, Enemy

  Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Escorting, Politeness, Flexible

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• Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

  Lance Loud

  Honesty, Mean, Order

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• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Bars, Satisfaction, Pursuit

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• The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dark, Light, Discovery

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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