Quotes About Relevance

Joseph O'Leary, 55, of Berwyn, PA

If you're not cop, you're little people.

Malcolm said, "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

There's nothing more sobering than a thirty year old newspaper.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political

Even though speculation is correct only by chance, which means it is wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers and therefore nobody cares. People do not remember yesterday, let alone last week, or last month. Media exists in the eternal now, this minute, this crisis, this talking head, this column, this speculation.

It helps, of course - let's not get carried away - if you'er a young prince like Mizzy, and you've actually got something of value to destroy in the first place.

You don't have to matter any more than you do right now.

Richard kurnazca gülümsüyor. 'Ah ÅŸu uÄŸurlu iÅŸaretler,' diyor, 'onlara inan?yor musun? Bize bu kadar önem verildiÄŸini mi düÅŸünüyorsun? Bizimle bu kadar ilgilenildiÄŸini mi düÅŸünüyorsunuz? Ah, öyle olsa harika olmaz m?yd?? Eh, belki de öyledir.

So in the development of your Marketing Strategy, it is absolutely imperative that you forget about your dreams, forget about your visions, forget about your interests, forget about what you want—forget about everything but your customer!

I would suggest that value is what people perceive it to be, and nothing more.

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That

I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.

This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.

People who had lived without government were more likely to find meaning in it. On the other hand, people who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed.

No one ever asked Friedberg the question: If my knowledge is no longer useful, who needs me? But it was a good question. "There is stuff the farmer picks up on that we haven't got data on yet," he said. "For example, are there bugs in the field? But over time

Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish.

How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

It pleases me that Frank Sinatra's music still has an audience, because many people who have come into the music world and then passed out of the music world are long since forgotten. He has been able to enjoy this great longevity.