Firm Quotes - Page 8

• That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

  Steve Eisman

  Wall, Rip, Years

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Men, Stronger

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.55, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, Acting, Want

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• A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self, Needs, Clubs

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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Reality, Passive Resistance

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• Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

  Andy Stanley

  Reality, People, Intoxicated

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.22, Multnomah

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation as repeatedly announced by Jesus Christ and His apostles and prophets. It is my firm belief that all truth and light originating with God is embraced in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Light, News

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• Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Mind, Principles

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

  Michael Steinhardt

  Mutual Fund, Horrible, Customers

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• The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

  Confucius

  Wise, Moving, Men

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• I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Terror

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• Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Wind, Towers

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.

  Clayton Christensen

  Running, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Trying, Bankers

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

  Denis Hayes

  Taken, Technology, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Sea, Iron

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.

  Chip Kelly

  Football, Running, School

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Believer, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: collider.com

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• Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be near her.

  Howard K. Stern

  Home, Bahamas, Anna

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