Ed Koch Quotes

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

Tree killing is arborcide.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me

The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.

Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

There is no security for any of us unless there is security for all

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

Once you go alien, you really do never go back.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

All poetry comes from repetition.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.