Quotes About Independence

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

Overcoming my sister's shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

I was a guy who loved to be on my own at times and to travel and some of the most comfortable times were in the middle of my career flying overseas, where you have to turn your phone off and no one can get to you for 10 hours. It was just a really comfortable place for me.

But people never really "do as they're told." The difference between for-profit and volunteer organizations is that in the for-profit world people do get paid and so they are willing to give up some control to the boss, to accept at least some direction. But they don't give up all control. You couldn't pay them enough for that.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories

In 1215, a statute was promulgated in the name of the pope, legally affirming the independence of Paris' university from the bishop. A year earlier, a similar measure had established the legal status of the colleges that, over the preceding decades, had begun to appear in the English town of Oxford. Universities were soon mushrooming across Christendom. Not merely tolerated, the methods of enquiry pioneered by Abelard had been institutionalised.

I'm on my own again. I feel totally exhausted. I

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

And I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her. I'm a bad boy for breakin her heart

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!

As with national revolutions elsewhere, both peoples in Palestine tended to put nationalism above democracy and human rights.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.