Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet Copy Share Image
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel Copy Share Image
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
If you fail to pay your minimums for any debt on time, your credit score will take a major hit and you… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with… — Lorraine Moller Copy Share Image
At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they… — Luke Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't… — Cindy Wright Copy Share Image
The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image