- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it out on BBC2, reasoning that it was 'a gentle comedy', better suited to the calms of the second channel than to the noisier, choppier waters of the first.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life has been in reverse. It wasn't fame, and it wasn't money, but I always wanted to succeed. The only way I could do that was to try with every job to be better than I was in the last one, and to learn.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
- Nov 07, 2020
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.
- Crumble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.
- Legends
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the melancholy fate of all young legends to becoming better known for the things they did to exploit fame than the things that made them famous in the first place.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020