Kreps Quotes & Sayings

I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used. — Juanita M. Kreps

When I need God most, He comes
to me the fastest and closest. When
I need the creation most, they run
from me the fastest and farthest. — Yasmin Mogahed

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer. — Russell Smith

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system. — Jimmy Smits

Between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values. — Juanita M. Kreps

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either. — Greg Proops

I need you. I do not know who I would be without you. — Cheryl McIntyre

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian. — Thomas J. Sargent

It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there. — David M. Kreps

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day. — Dick Costolo

All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives! — Raymond E. Feist

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve. — Juanita M. Kreps

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need. — Sandy Kreps

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world. — Juanita M. Kreps

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man — Juanita M. Kreps

Her lack of maidenly scruple would have amused me at another moment, but just now her face was so grimly determined that I could only wonder what she had in mind. Nothing could have been less seductive, anyway, than her expression at that moment. — Elizabeth Kostova