People Quotes

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal"

"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time"

John Locke, Philosopher

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

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