Ed Martin Quotes

It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.

The best entrepreneurs never confuse motion with results.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Remember, that the logo is really the dot on top of the i.

Powerful brands in the future will instead carefully choose who'd they'd love to be friends with - and who they'd be comfortable upsetting.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.

...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

A man will be known by his books.

You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.