"I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me."

-- Stephen A. Schwarzman

#Senior Quotes #People Quotes #Levels Quotes

“The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.”
“The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.”
“The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.”
“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
“The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.”

Source : Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.131, Pan Macmillan
“There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.”

Source : Forest Ray Moulton (1935). “Consider the Heavens”
“One thing I've learned in my career is that you don't have to answer people right away. I've learned how to say, "Can I get back to you about that?" Now I've given myself time to really assess what you asked me to do or what the situation is, think about it, then come up with a plan. Then by doing that, when I come back to you, it's not what I say it's how I say it.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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