"The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'."

-- Bernard Madoff

#Wall Quotes #Giving Quotes #Greed Quotes

“When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!”
“The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...”
“You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.”
“Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.”
“Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.”
“I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.”
“You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.”
“One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to â€œhave a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.”

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