People Quotes - Page 439

The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

Easy lives make boring people and things have definitely not been easy.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.