Maximizing Quotes - Page 2

• Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living.  It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life.  It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Trying, Sake, Purses

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.7, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's about getting off your ass and maximizing all the opportunities that life has to offer.

  Jason Ellis

  Opportunity, Mma, Ass

  4 Copy quote

• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Goal, May

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

  John Green

  Education, Passion, Important

  7 Copy quote

• Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Rights, Office, Crow

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Energy, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

  Nora Roberts

  Goal, Want, Students

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  257 Copy quote

• There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Thinking, Boston, Voice

  4 Copy quote

• In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Investing, Variables

  12 Copy quote

• All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Land, Doubt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  Sam Harris

  Morality, Ethics, Psychological

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

  Padgett Powell

  Long, Addiction, Choices

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits.

  Tony Hsieh

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

  1537 Copy quote

  Show source

• Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Long, Focus

  4 Copy quote

• My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.

  DJ Quik

  Hip Hop, Hips, Dinosaurs

  7 Copy quote

• What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect they're families, I effect their beliefs about themselves and it gives me so much joy

  John Assaraf

  People, Giving, Joy

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  1267 Copy quote

• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  12 Copy quote

• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

  Eli Broad

  Believe, Hands, Foundation

  7 Copy quote

• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

  17 Copy quote