Francisco Umbral Quotes & Sayings

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be — Gordon Brown

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the political process. These findings have led some observers to assert that citizens are ill-equipped for the responsibility of self-governance and that public opinion (the will of the majority) should not be the ultimate determinant of what government does. — Edward S. Greenberg

Success is living what you believe. — Teresa Collins

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach. — Jeb Bush

While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values. — Yvon Chouinard

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity. — Saint Francis De Sales

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. — Andy Grove

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is. — Thomas Sowell