"In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned."

-- J. Paul Getty

#Attitude Quotes #Moving Quotes #Majority Quotes

“People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.”
“I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.”
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”
“Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.”
“My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.”
“Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!”
“Don't spend...but mend yourself...”
“In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.”

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