"I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage."

-- Jamie Dimon

#Fall Quotes #Mean Quotes #Risk Quotes

“When you want something very dearly, you make the time.”
“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.
“You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.”
“Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.”
“There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, Iâ€™ll give you everything until I collapse. Thatâ€™s not in any â€™Look at me, Iâ€™m a saintâ€™ kind of way. Itâ€™s very selfish in a way. Iâ€™m doing this really awesome exploration, and itâ€™s like a drug, because I completely disappear.”
“It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

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