Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don’t. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you’re marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.
I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.
A person cannot be a Marine without honor.
On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.
As a builder, you don’t get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.
I do not believe that the average person wants a ‘map’ of his face – I believe he wants to be idealized.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of “original materials.”
Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.
When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud.
Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
Just to assassinate Michael Brown’s character is wrong.
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.