Famous African American Business Quotes & Sayings

The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time. — Stephen King

Love never had enough time, but what time was left, he would savor. Every single second. — Karen Kingsbury

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund. — Liam Aiken

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue! — Thomas A Kempis

Arnold Sommerfeld generalized Bohr's model to include elliptical orbits in three dimensions. He treated the problem relativistically (using Einstein's formula for the increase of mass with velocity), ... According to historian Max Jammer, this success of Sommerfeld's fine-structure formula "served also as an indirect confirmation of Einstein's relativistic formula for the velocity dependence of inertia mass. — Stephen G. Brush

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty. — Simon Sinek

The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community. — Michael Scheuer

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. — Margaret Thatcher

Just listen to the wind," he says. "That's what I always do." I — Haruki Murakami

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. — William A. Dembski

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions. — Stephen King

If you wait until all of your own issues are gone before helping others, it will never happen. This is a trap that millions have fallen into, not realizing that our own sanctification happens as we minister to others. — Francis Chan

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. — Jack Vance

When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part. — Jayne Houdyshell

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe. — Ben Carson