- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
- Ever-Changing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.
- Sexy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2014, Blackstone was the most profitable money manager in the world. I did not anticipate that.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020