Top Quotes - page 80

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall. (David Suzuki)
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. View quote
Jack Welch
Don't lose youself on the way to the top. View quote
Jack Welch
Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent. View quote
Jack Welch
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery. View quote
Cesar Chavez
I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way. View quote
Tim McGraw
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. View quote
Carlos Ghosn
I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true. View quote
Bill Hicks
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. View quote
Eugene Fama
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right. View quote
Bernie Sanders
I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around. View quote
David Cross
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. View quote
Arlen Specter
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. View quote
Lee Ritenour
I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible. View quote
Sebastian Bach
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. View quote
Sebastian Bach
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. View quote
Pat Robertson
It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur. View quote
Steven Pressfield
People think that I reached the top overnight well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business. View quote
Larry Holmes
When you're knocked on your back and you life's a flop, When you're down on the bottom and there's nothing else but to shout to the top! (Paul Weller (singer))
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. View quote
Zig Ziglar
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made. View quote
Zig Ziglar
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top. View quote
Zig Ziglar
I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club. View quote
Alan Hansen