Firm Quotes - Page 19

• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

  William Blake

  Doe, Persuasion

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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• And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Men, Sky

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• In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

  Ron Chernow

  Saving, Saws, Household

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• Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

  William Easterly

  Development, Poverty, Remember

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "A Defense of Indian Culture". Essay by Sri Aurobindo, as quoted in Sisirkumar Mitra "The Vision of India", 1947.

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

  Ntozake Shange

  People, Use, Brilliant

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

  George J. Mitchell

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

  Alan Patricof

  Jobs, Asking, Way

  "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

  Blake Ross

  Entrepreneur, Shade, Gray

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• You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Winning, Ideas, Numbers

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• In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

  Livy

  Leadership, Persuasion, Resources

  "The History of Rome".

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• People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, Character, Long

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• I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

  David Levithan

  Serendipity, Together, Purpose

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Weather, Creative, Storm

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.90, Routledge

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Greatness, Suffering, Bears

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  Humphry Davy

  Religious, Believe, Blessing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 241, 1895.

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• Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Oil, Expectations

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• Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Echoes, Advice, Feelings

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• Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.

  Philip Kotler

  Winning, Average, Poor

  Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Taihong Lu (2009). “Marketing management in China”, Pearson

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• The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas.

  Philip Kotler

  Keys, Numbers, Issues

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• It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

  Bob Lutz

  Running, Philosophy, Passion

  Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

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• The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

  Jane Roberts

  Lying, Space, Matter

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• The marriage rate has hit an all-time low, with 1 in 5 adults over 25 having never been married. In fact, an ad firm has come up with slogans to get people on board. One slogan is: 'Marriage, satisfaction guaranteed or your money back - half of it, anyway.'

  Jimmy Little

  People, All Time Low, Adults

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