Jan Teigen Quotes & Sayings

There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive. — John McAfee

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. — Ernest Shackleton

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. — Alfred Marshall

I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes. — Lefty Gomez

The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together. — Francis Bacon

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. — H.L. Mencken

How much experience do you think I've got in these matters? Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. — Terry Pratchett

People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen. — Kaitlin Bevis

In any case civilization has made mankind if not more blood-thirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely blood-thirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore. — Antonio Banderas

Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked — Bernard Kelvin Clive

He was interested in the human side of that struggle to express something which was so obscure in the man's mind that he was become morbid and querulous. Philip felt vaguely that he himself was himself in the same case, but with him it was the conduct of his life as a whole that perplexed him. That was his means of self-expression, and what he must do with it was not clear. — W. Somerset Maugham

We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing. — Louise Hay