Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."
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Obnoxious
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Walker Percy
Author, Novelist
"Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious."
Henry Adams
Historian
"I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already."
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"Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy "I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy"
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