David L. Katz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
-- David L. Katz

#People #Common Sense #Weight
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!
-- David L. Katz

#Book #Rewards #Abdomen
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
-- David L. Katz

#Ebola #Risk #Exotic
Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.
-- David L. Katz

#Opportunity #Thinking #Mirrors
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.
-- David L. Katz

#War #People #Bird
Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.
-- David L. Katz

#Epidemics #Years #United States

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.

David L. Katz famous quotes

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