A.G. Howard Quotes

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

I'm going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you're in big trouble.

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.

Don't let the government win.

I didn't listen to executives.

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Ideas are incestuous.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Success is best when it is shared.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.