Ehrand Quotes & Sayings

The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own. — Lee R. Raymond

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician. — Napoleon Hill

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud. — Satya Nadella

For modern man, survival meant mental change. The stubborn died as martyrs; the fanatic and the philosopher perished in the face of sudden change. To survive now one had to be pliable; one had to adjust to new codes and ideals and morals. The mind had to change. — William Mulvihill

The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. — Charles Koch

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? — Jeremy Paxman

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. — Anthony Bourdain

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head. — Les Claypool

Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally? — Albert Allen Bartlett

Some people can handle fame, some can't. — Jonny Lee Miller

When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships. — Sarah Rayner

The logic of the heart is absurd — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse