If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED P. SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED P. SLOAN Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED P. SLOAN The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED P. SLOAN Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED P. SLOAN There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED P. SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED P. SLOAN In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED P. SLOAN Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED P. SLOAN, JR. Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED SLOAN The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED SLOAN If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED SLOAN Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED SLOAN A car for every purse and purpose.
ALFRED SLOAN There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.
SLOAN WILSON I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
ALLAN SLOAN Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This expl...
SLOAN WILSON The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
SLOAN WILSON There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Cour...
CLIFF SLOAN People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
ALLAN SLOAN It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on ...
ALLAN SLOAN If the subject matter isn't inherently interesting - accounting comes to mind - I've got to make it ...
ALLAN SLOAN If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something?...
ALLAN SLOAN If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal hu...
ALLAN SLOAN I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that th...
ALLAN SLOAN I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give ...
ALLAN SLOAN Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
ALLAN SLOAN Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so y...
ALLAN SLOAN The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fu...
ALLAN SLOAN It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by har...
SLOAN WILSON We are once again honored to be acknowledged by Yankee Group as the leader in business portal servic...
BOB SLOAN The universal tailgating food seems to be brats and burgers because they fit in a bun and they're ea...
BOB SLOAN Hedge funds are synonymous with actively managed money. Is it unusual to outperform the major indice...
BOB SLOAN I have to go for the underdog, Rutgers, because Yale has taken credit for so many more other things....
BOB SLOAN Ribs are always good. If you walk by a group of people eating ribs, they're always smiling.
BOB SLOAN We're watching how people are learning to use the Internet [and] watched how the click-to-chat capab...
BOB SLOAN Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because ...
ALLAN SLOAN Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
JOHN SLOAN If physicians suggest, either directly or even implicitly, that faith and religious activity are ass...
RICHARD SLOAN I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so...
ALLAN SLOAN I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't g...
ALLAN SLOAN When we first start, we just fool around. We play with it and see what feels good and what doesn't. ...
ALAN SLOAN That's another great thing about this project. They aren't just here for a short time. These works s...
ALAN SLOAN I think he's found his niche. His 100 free is coming along. ... He's beaten some tough competitors, ...
BRIAN SLOAN The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class...
SLOAN WILSON We miss some things not being in a big city, but there's an awfully lot we adore about a small town....
KELLY SLOAN Because when I get put in a corner, I'm not gonna just fold up like an accordion. I never have. I'll...
JERRY SLOAN Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was t...
CLIFF SLOAN This team, they've shown the willingness to try to fight back and stay in there and compete even tho...
JERRY SLOAN Seventh grade was the worst year of my life. I still haven't forgotten. ... Two girls would make fun...
BETSY SLOAN I tell the players, 'I'm sorry that you got hurt, but there's not a thing I can do about it'. You've...
JERRY SLOAN I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a com...
ROBIN SLOAN We just got annihilated. We had one quarter in which we executed and that was the second quarter. Wh...
JERRY SLOAN I could have passed the ball into Yao sitting on the bench he was so wide open. He got what he wante...
JERRY SLOAN He came in this league as a great player, in my opinion. But he obviously gets better.
JERRY SLOAN [And the schedule still includes the scenarios Sloan believes are most important: A couple of back-t...
JERRY SLOAN But perjury is not a technicality,
MELANIE SLOAN As soon as you whip yourself but shaking your head and feeling sorry for yourself, you're a whipped ...
JERRY SLOAN I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.
JERRY SLOAN Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine i...
JOHN SLOAN Gray Flannel really deals with two big issues. The first is how workaholics are divorced from their ...
SLOAN WILSON I was more disappointed in our veteran players. You know, you can be upset with the young players ? ...
JERRY SLOAN Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
JOHN SLOAN There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
JOHN SLOAN Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books stari...
ROBIN SLOAN He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.
ROBIN SLOAN Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
ROBIN SLOAN After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember th...
ROBIN SLOAN The skipper is reported to be greatly distressed. He called the coast guard immediately after it hap...
LARA SLOAN I think he was kind of rejuvenated, knowing that he felt like he belonged there. I think it gave him...
JERRY SLOAN Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel th...
ROBIN SLOAN So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between u...
ROBIN SLOAN Andrei played awfully well. He's been dedicated to doing things: helping and encouraging his teammat...
JERRY SLOAN I know I'm going against the popular grain because very few sites have a paying clientele, but I don...
TIM SLOAN I am really into the type of girl you can impress with a prototype.
ROBIN SLOAN If they told me to take my shoes off, I'd coach barefoot,
JERRY SLOAN David Murray is a great businessman but knows nothing about football. If he did, he'd have sacked Mc...
JOHN SLOAN She is very enthusiastic and energetic in her job.
MARK SLOAN Choosing to continue to grow spiritually is a part of realizing we are not simply just physical bein...
KELLY SLOAN We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a h...
JERRY SLOAN But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings...
ROBIN SLOAN It reduces the impact of some of the softer data, but won't be a major factor for the Fed.
DAVID SLOAN Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind
JOHN SLOAN The college undergraduate is a lot of things - many of them as familiar, predictable and responsible...
JOHN SLOAN A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
SLOAN WILSON We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may...
SLOAN WILSON There are wolves,
SLOAN WILSON In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism fo...
SLOAN WILSON It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start...
SLOAN WILSON The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle fo...
SLOAN WILSON "I tell the players, 'I'm sorry that you got hurt, but there's not a thing I can do about it'. You'v...
JERRY SLOAN Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.
MELANIE SLOAN Dave Bliss' attempts to conceal from investigators the truth about improprieties in our men's basket...
ROBERT SLOAN Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render...
RICHARD SLOAN (Miami) is a smart team, they execute. We haven't learned to do that in an offense. We can't do it o...
JERRY SLOAN I pull out my laptop, which is probably the most advanced piece of technology that has ever crossed ...
ROBIN SLOAN When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myse...
ALLAN SLOAN [Williams only had two assists but played markedly better after an eight-minute, three-foul stint ag...
JERRY SLOAN They talked about how nobody checked your ID, and you could always give your ticket away to someone ...
DIANE SLOAN I've been in this business for ten years and I've seen it several times. I was around when 9/11 happ...
DIANE SLOAN We send a lot of people to the Dominican Republic and the Florida Keys. The ones we had sent in that...
DIANE SLOAN We are having a pretty bad week, actually. I am spending a lot of time this week re-accommodating.
DIANE SLOAN People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
ALLAN SLOAN The guys have stuck with it. We lost some early meets, but seem to be coming through now.
BRIAN SLOAN We're shooting for the Cape meet. They are really excited. It would be the first time the medley rel...
BRIAN SLOAN Life is a book waiting to happen.
SLOAN MCBRIDE Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -– low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over w...
ROBIN SLOAN The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of ...
ROBIN SLOAN The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.
SLOAN WILSON America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do...
ROBIN SLOAN I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out...
ROBIN SLOAN We've remodeled the company creating a unique hybrid that combines the bold creative freedom and tre...
HARRY SLOAN Dan Taylor has done an excellent job in overseeing one of the most complex transactions ever complet...
HARRY SLOAN I commend the Heart of Rushville for getting behind this event.
MARK SLOAN This event is a great thing for Rush County and for our farmers, as well as our craftspeople.
MARK SLOAN The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.
ROBIN SLOAN We didn't think that was an effective or efficient use of resources.
LEA SLOAN No one has been able to make it work over an extended period. One of the benefits of the pledge peri...
LEA SLOAN But you find out that he is Cupid. Then he falls in love with one of his hits.
KAREN SLOAN In the end, she comes out on top. But I don't want to give away the ending.
KAREN SLOAN My brother had his wisdom teeth out.
KAREN SLOAN Although the mock trial may pose a different situation than the one presented in 'To Kill a Mockingb...
KAREN SLOAN The idea of One Book, One Community is to encourage participation by other organizations in the givi...
KAREN SLOAN Truly there is something for everyone.
KAREN SLOAN It is a well-respected book that is still a part of many schools' curricula. The fact that it is use...
KAREN SLOAN This is the kind of thing that's so big, you can't even put it into words. Just how much this means ...
JOE SLOAN For somebody to come out of the blue, who you see in passing, and say 'I'll do that for you,' it say...
JOE SLOAN I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a...
ROBIN SLOAN The success of porridge is almost entirely due to its convenience and its healthy positioning.
JULIE SLOAN Our research shows that chewing gum and in particular sugar free gum is appealing to a wider range o...
JULIE SLOAN We don't know 100 percent but we do believe it's Luna.
LARA SLOAN People who want to live in an upscale golf community today are looking for more than great golf.
MATT SLOAN [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] was compelled to research and release a repor...
MELANIE SLOAN That keeps the wildlife values more intact.
SLOAN SHOEMAKER There were no expectations for them. It was definitely a learning experience.
SLOAN DEVLIN Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - ...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN Hope is the pillar that holds up the world
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.
HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine i...
JOHN FRENCH SLOAN Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are al...
HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN I'm not OK., you're not OK., and that's OK.!
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all o...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.
HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.
HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN I made a note to talk to him about soft drinks. Those beverages are not healthy.

from cou...
HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY