Franqueza Quotes & Sayings

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time? — Swami Vivekananda

The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power. — Albert Shanker

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common. — Iris Apfel

Everyone likes pussy. It's un-American not to like pussy. — Sam Zell

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.-
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And it makes you vulnerable. — Jim Butcher

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E.P. Box

Maybe the hardened clay was not as ugly as I had thought. Maybe what I resented was the color my father had painted me. The time had come to sand away some of that dreadful stain. — Zohreh Ghahremani

My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself. — Maelle Gavet

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas. — Clayton Christensen

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively. — Avinash Kaushik

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. — Thomas Jefferson