Firm Quotes - Page 2

• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape of our being and our individuality. It is how we create firm boundaries and allow others to know who we are and what we value.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Expression, Individuality

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• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• He who stands on tiptoe
  doesn't stand firm.
  He who rushes ahead
  doesn't go far.
  He who tries to shine
  dims his own light.
  He who defines himself
  can't know who he really is.
  He who has power over others
  can't empower himself.
  He who clings to his work
  will create nothing that endures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Light, Empowering

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• A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

  Clay Shirky

  Successful, Effort, Cost

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

  Edward Rutledge

  Defense, Posture, Exertion

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.

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• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

  Confucius

  Distance, Men, Three

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.206

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

  Michelle Sagara

  Heartless, Matter, Belief

  Michelle Sagara (2012). “Cast in Peril”, p.118, LUNA

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• A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

  William Cohen

  Fall, Successful, Competition

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• Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.

  W. Craig Zwick

  May, Information, Spirit

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Courage is the most important thing...Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination... Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. Have great courage and patience - and be not afraid of water, fire or great storms - face them bravely. Face the fire and it will turn to ice. This requires control of mind and a firm determination.

  Haidakhan Babaji

  Mother, Determination, Thinking

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• To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

  Don Tapscott

  Successful, Organization, Needs

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

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• My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Ends, Publishers

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• Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.

  Harry Burns

  Eight, Phones, Dollars

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• Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Stand Firm, Imaginary, Imaginary Things

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

  Gerald Gardner

  Believe, Paganism, Wiccan

  Gerald Gardner (2004). “The Meaning of Witchcraft”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Foundation, Generations

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• ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

  John Yudkin

  Jobs, Dark, People

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• The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Ideas, Historical

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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• I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

  Gerard Butler

  Guitar, Law, Training

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• Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

  George Carlin

  Running, Independent, Media

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