With People Quotes

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.