I.B. George Quotes

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

Ask a new question and you will learn new things.

I've never seen an orange with the label Castle on it made of glass.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.

Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself.

Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory

I try to hold my charisma in check.

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is un-ugly.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.