"Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty."

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Source : Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

Felix Rohatyn

#Dirty Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.57, Vintage
“Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.”
“A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.”
“I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or go snowboarding a couple hours away.”
“Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.”
“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”
“If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?”
“We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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