Ratable Business Quotes & Sayings

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour. — Cedric Price

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. — William S. Burroughs

Another lesson is that smart professionals might give an instruction to a program based on a sensible-seeming and normally sound assumption (e.g. that trading volume is a good measure of market liquidity), and that this can produce catastrophic results when the program continues to act on the instruction with iron-clad logical consistency even in the unanticipated situation where the assumption turns out to be invalid. The algorithm just does what it does; and unless it is a very special kind of algorithm, it does not care that we clasp our heads and gasp in dumbstruck horror at the absurd inappropriateness of its actions. This is a theme that we will encounter again. — Nick Bostrom

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there. — Alber Elbaz

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. — Knute Nelson

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare. — Winfried Vahland

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. — Gillian Flynn

I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

knows how this will end: but assuredly in one extreme or the other. There can be no medium between those who have loved so much. — Jon Meacham

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy. — Newt Gingrich

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free. — Tian Dayton

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy. — Leona Lewis