"My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well."

-- Ben Stein

#Successful Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.”
“Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.”
“I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.”

Source : "Charlotte Ronson, Beauty Mogul". Interview with Sarah Howard, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2011.
“There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.”
“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”
“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
“To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.”
“The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.”

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