Englebienne Quotes & Sayings

Entrepreneurship is about freedom, financial freedom but it also about what you leave behind.
Guibert Englebienne, Co-founder of Globant — Kevin Kelly

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence. — Arthur Desmond

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. — William Lethaby

You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about? — Jim Breuer

How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one speaks of a thief being saved. — Samuel Beckett

Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but ... I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride. — Bryan Davis

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live. — Jostein Gaarder

I like people who are being normal and being themselves. — Callan McAuliffe

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat. — Charlie Munger

Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And at the time change in regime as a policy came into effect in 1998, it was seen as the only way to compel Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction. — Colin Powell

But if men are, on the one hand, irresistibly impelled towards what is for their profit, and if, on the other, they resist instinctively what is hurtful, we are forced to conclude that each nation carries in its bosom a natural force of expansion, and a not less natural force of resistance, which forces are equally injurious to all other nations; or, in other words, that antagonism and war are the natural state of human society. — Frederic Bastiat

My shirt bunched up around my waist, and the feeling of his hi-there against my hoohah was indescribable. — Alice Clayton

The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we'll ruin the one we have. — Beth Moore

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson

The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines — Lois McMaster Bujold

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. — Johnny Depp