Boudina Ibrahim Quotes & Sayings

Livingston: Some aspects of business turned out to be less of a mystery than you had thought. What did you find you were better at than you thought? Graham: I found I could actually sell moderately well. I could convince people of stuff. I learned a trick for doing this: to tell the truth. A lot of people think that the way to convince people of things is to be eloquent - to have some bag of tricks for sliding conclusions into their brains. But there's also a sort of hack that you can use if you are not a very good salesman, which is simply tell people the truth. Our strategy for selling our software to people was: make the best software and then tell them, truthfully, "this is the best software." And they could tell we were telling the truth. Another advantage of telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you've said. You don't have to keep any state in your head. It's a purely functional business strategy. (Hackers will get what I mean.) — Jessica Livingston

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too — John Fante

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it. — Oprah Winfrey

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. — Dick Cheney

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society. — Benito Mussolini

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated. — Laura Berman Fortgang

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow — Henry Ford

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame. — Ryan Shawcross

If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain. — Claude Monet

If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing. — Doreen Virtue

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had. — John Dewey

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others. — Elizabeth Moon

As he walked up past the red and green tennis courts in east Berkeley and saw the swing of the women's hair in the breeze, the crisp strokes that sent the ball over the net like a little bone-white planetoid, it occurred to him that there was still a last chance for a pair of heavenly arms to reach out to him and save him. — William T. Vollmann