Quotes of: Kenneth Keyword

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Steven Levitt

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.

Steve Stoute

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

James Heckman

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

John Hodgman

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Stephen Hawking

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul Samuelson

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Greg Lynn

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Beatrice Webb

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Ellsworth Huntington

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

James Meade

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert M. Hutchins

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Barbara Sher

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

John Podhoretz

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Dick Cavett

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Francois Hollande

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Mark Skousen

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones