Quotes of: Insurance-companies Keyword

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety,...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marr...

My Life

Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It is frequently a poor arrangement for doctors as well, but that does not mitigate how little the system accounts for the patient's best interest...

The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases

Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came...

Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a gr...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company's stores. " The store will becom...

Steve Jobs

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers and administrators at Mercer High, which Dunham att...

The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama

Howard Beale: Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is...

Network

Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa. Barbossa: Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa. Barbossa: Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it i...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Bruce Wayne: [seated in the back of his car; he answers the phone] Bruce Wayne. Earle: What makes you think *you* can decide who's running Wayne Enterprises? Bruce Wayne: Well, the fact that I'm the owner. Earle: What are you talking about? The compa...

Batman Begins

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

The Doctor and the Devils

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?" "The company of a friend, I think." "Always a cheap treat.

Drive

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Gothic Cavalcade

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Gilead

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.

The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

Black Dawn

As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company as a violin in a jazz band.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Howard Schultz