As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money,… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price -… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton became president, and he [Bill Clinton] kept cheating - and she kept destroying the women. She was supposed to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease. — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image