Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the other, over and over.
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.
