Quotes About Commitment

My mentality was to go out and win, at any cost. If you don't want to live that regimented mentality, then you don't need to be alongside of me. Coz I'm gonna ridicule you until you get on the same level with me, and if you don't get on the same level, then it's gonna be hell for you.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

You want loyalty, hire a cocker spaniel.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation. —Warren Buffett

The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology

when I ran mortgages, I religiously took people from the back office. At first I did it for moral reasons. But it worked. They appreciated it. They didn't feel like the world owed them a living. They were more loyal.

Clark liked to say that human beings, when they took risks, fell into one of two types, pigs or chickens. "The difference between these two kinds of people," he'd say, "is the difference between the pig and the chicken in the ham-and-eggs breakfast. The chicken is interested, the pig is committed. If you are going to do anything worth doing, you need a lot of pigs." The

After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?

When you say, "Whoa! I knew I was good. But I didn't know I was this good." After that it became a complete obsession for me. I was going to go to an IIT. My dad would come into my room at three in the morning, and I'd be studying! He would say, "Swaroop, you must go to sleep, you know."' Kittu

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After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? "I

At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch.

The Germans. They will always do the job they are given no matter what.

An afternoon can fly by or it can take 5 hours. Like you probably do, I productively fill the gaps that most people leave as dead time. My drive to be productive probably cost me my first marriage and a few days ago almost cost me my fiancée. Before I went to college the military had this "we do more before 9am than most people do all day" and I used to think and I do more than the military.

As Kat DeBurgh, head of the Health Officers Association of California, put it, "To do the job of local public-health officer, you basically always need to be willing to lose your job.

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

working on this book has been those long

As my last New Year's resolution, I had stopped selling people things I didn't think they should buy. For Lent, I had given up my New Year's resolution.

Everything you do is a one-way street.

Business should not be like war. It should be like love. And not a steamy, one night stand, but a mutually beneficial, steadily improving romance that lasts a lifetime.

I could write 15,000 words a day and gave myself three days a volume.

One does not part willingly with early loyalties or early traditions, and indeed the rolling years do but confirm them.

Could you waste your life on a gift? If you did not use your gift, was it a betrayal?

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient