C. L. R. James Quotes

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

Trust me: I dont wish I was a New Zealander.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.