"Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either."

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Source : "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

Jamie Dimon

#Risk Quotes #Opaque Quotes #Management Quotes

“When people are saying "rock is dead," it's making everything worse. I would like reword and say "rock is underground." We're really being alienated from every possible facet. Rock radio doesn't even play rock bands anymore. So, they've pretty much stripped away every outlet for us to reach the fans.”
“There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.”

Source : Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."
“Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.”
“Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.”
“Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.”

Source : "Q&A Theresa May". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.
“I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman”

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