Shleifer Inefficient Quotes & Sayings

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. — Mitt Romney

Within traditional institutions, success has often been contingent upon a woman not speaking out but fitting in, or more colloquially, being "one of the guys. — Sheryl Sandberg

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore. — Lady Gaga

If I want to gain her trust, I have to give her mine ... — Grace Fiorre

From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. — Robert M. Pirsig

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult. — Joe Nichols

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever. — Warren Buffett

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing — Jane Campion

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing. — Sarah Dessen

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all. — R.L. LaFevers

You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt. — Ayn Rand

The elder brother compares himself with the younger one and becomes jealous. But the father loves them both so much that it didn't even occur to him to delay the party in order to prevent the elder son from feeling rejected. I am convinced that many of my emotional problems would melt as snow in the sun if I could let the truth of God's motherly non-comparing love permeate my heart. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet ... Ultimately, you become commercially successful. — Clayton Christensen