American Quotes

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Keep it simple.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?