Quotes About Impact

My first introduction to Russell Westbrook was as a leader. It was pretty impressive.

The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. What he's done for comedy and television has been legendary and history-making. What he's done for the black community and education has been invaluable. That's the Bill Cosby I know.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. It made me want to move to New York.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Technology has always been a catalyst for change, such as the invention of the airplane or the Internet.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't even know it. It's inevitably an ineffective way to communicate to the company your feelings.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Word - that invisible dagger.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

Lists, and lists of lists, invite many questions and one that crops up here is: what makes a children's book last? When it's books for very young children, this is a matter that is almost entirely at the behest of adults - parents, teachers, critics, librarians.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.