Chief Quotes

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The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… — Charles Dudley Warner
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the… — Joseph Campbell
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the… — William Jennings Bryan
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.… — Lewis Mumford
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught,… — Clarence Day
I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray… — Nigel Rees
My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out… — Henry Mintzberg
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J. B. Priestley
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses… — Michelle Malkin
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. — Ralph Neas
The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the… — Dion Fortune
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which… — Samuel Roth
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one… — Denis Fahey
A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would… — David Limbaugh
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. — Michael Porter
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I… — Chance the Rapper
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows… — Pete Rozelle

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