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William Lyon Phelps

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MICHAEL PHELPS I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
MICHAEL PHELPS Every sponsor I've had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
MICHAEL PHELPS I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi...
MICHAEL PHELPS People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to ...
MICHAEL PHELPS I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPS I'm a Dunkin' Donuts kind of guy. I also like Cadbury's.
MICHAEL PHELPS I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPS If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
MICHAEL PHELPS I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wa...
MICHAEL PHELPS Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ...
MICHAEL PHELPS I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time...
MICHAEL PHELPS I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at...
MICHAEL PHELPS I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
MICHAEL PHELPS To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented to...
EDMUND PHELPS Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It'...
MICHAEL PHELPS Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl...
EDMUND PHELPS Are you living for the things you are praying for?
AUSTIN PHELPS A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arra...
EDMUND PHELPS Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and ...
EDMUND PHELPS I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an ...
MICHAEL PHELPS And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, y...
MICHAEL PHELPS Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal an...
EDMUND PHELPS We're pleased to put this behind us. This has been two years of turmoil and bullying by this union.
CASSANDRA PHELPS The contract we agreed upon was not that different from the one that we've proposed all along. It's ...
CASSANDRA PHELPS This was a hard decision but a stand we had to take to put an end to these continued strikes and thr...
CASSANDRA PHELPS This is an example of this change and the fear that it puts in the hearts and minds of independent p...
CASSANDRA PHELPS The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD PHELPS My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with increm...
EDMUND PHELPS America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few ...
EDMUND PHELPS Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
EDMUND PHELPS