Lee Iacocca
The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
When you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Real peace can only be shared - never imposed.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here.
Raymond Inmon
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Eugene Ionesco
Language can express everything except the pure truth.
Gail Ironson
Spirituality predicts for better disease control.
Washington Irving There are three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'you haven't changed a bit'
Pico Iyer
The things that don’t change give a meaning and a perspective to the many thing that do.
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Glenda Jackson
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Acting is not about dressing up. It is about stripping bare.
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
Jesse Jackson
The only justification for ever looking down on someone is to lift them up.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Joe Jackson
You can't get what you want ‘til you know what you want.
Rob Jackson
We've run out of time to build new things in old ways.
Mick Jagger
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Lose your dreams, and you might lose your mind.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Linda Jaivin
Knowledge is a renewable power source.
Institutions of democracy are not invincible.
The most potent superpower of a middle power is to be the best democracy it can be.
Clive James
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
The fatal futility of Fact.
I don't believe in lovely husbands. I only believe in good ones. (‘ Washington Square')
There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding. (‘The Portrait of a Lady')
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Stuart James
There are none so blind as those who do not hear.
P.D.James
Guilt is more commonly felt by the innocent than by the culpable. ('Death comes to Pemberley')
William James
All our scientific and philosophical ideals are altars to unknown gods.
Karl Jansen (Psychiatrist)
It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.
Klaus Jaritz
If the mountain won't come to you - go somewhere else.
Randall Jarrell
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Karl Jaspers
When in love we are immortal.
John Jay
Pure democracy - like pure rum - easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.
Julian Jaynes
The mind is an analog of what is called the real world.
Thomas Jefferson
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
I like the dream of the future better than the history of the past.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Waylon Jennings
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
Sir George Jessel
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
Yun Jiang
History is not about the dusty past. It is about the power to decide the future.
Steve Jobs
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate.
It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.
Elton John
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.... People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line with goats.
Pope John Paul
War is always a defeat of humanity.
The ecological crisis is a moral issue ...(and) the responsibility of everyone.
New scientific knowledge has led us to the conclusion that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis. (addressing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1996)
Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is that climate in which man may be liberated from the hopelessness that imprisons his spirit.
Samuel Johnson
Interest is the ruling motive of mankind.
Patriotism is the last refuge for the scoundrel.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience.
Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the origin of almost all of our actions.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind beautifully.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain.
The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Lloyd Jones
Dawn in the countryside is a religious event. (‘Choo Woo')
To be human is to be moral, and you can't have a day off when it suits you. (‘Mister Pip')
Russell Celyn Jones
None of us can cancel out our past. We are governed by it. (‘Ten Seconds from the Sun')
A good nature is a limited nature. Nobody admires it. People exploit it.
(‘Ten Seconds from the Sun')
Michael Jordan
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
Morag Joss
A person out of place is sentenced to be out of place everywhere. ('The Night Following')
Joseph Joubert
One ought to leave the opposition always a bone to keep them busy.
Politics is the art to direct the masses not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
Malalai Joya
You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.
Barnaby Joyce
With some people, you throw poo at them and it scarce them. But other people just use it as fertilizer.
James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Jean-Claude Juncker
When stupid populism and narrow-minded nationalism march toward the future, one must get up and stop it
while there is still time.
Carl Gustav Jung
I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become.
You can heal the wounds of others only if you have some yourself.
It is important and salutary to speak also of incomprehensible things.
The unexpected and the incredible belong to this world. Only then is life whole.
Individualisation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.
The collective unconscious is common to all; it is the foundation of what the ancients called the ‘sympathy of all things'
(‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections').
There was nothing preposterous or world-shaking in the idea that there might be events which overstepped the limited categories
of space, time, and causality. (‘Memories, Dream, Reflections')
Ernst Jünger
Adventure is the essence of life.
I am too old to know everything.
Death is an equation, not an end.
One can't negotiate with a volcano.
Hope always leads further than fear.
Facts are more important than opinions.
After an earthquake one kicks the seismograph.
Mistakes are part of life just as shadow is to light.
A good conversation must be a mix of talking and listening.
Every step is a step towards a goal - and that goes also for missteps.
Every person has his good sides - you just have to look behind the bad ones.
Vera Jourova - EU Justice Commissioner
If you repeat a lie a hundred times it becomes the truth.