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People Quotes — page 1115 of 5018

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Michael J. Silverstein Businessman, Author
Ambitious

“A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.”

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Michael J. Silverstein Businessman, Author
Angry

“People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.”

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Michael J. Silverstein Businessman, Author
Inspired

“People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.”

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Michael Johnson Athlete
Confident

“I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.”

Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Angry

“The thing I'm most afraid of is what happens when these people who voted for Donald Trump realize he's not going to do anything for them and that he's not an antidote to what ails them. His whole movement runs on anger, and if it doesn't have anger, it doesn't go anywhere.”

Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.”

Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.”

Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Philosophical

“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Funny

“Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Angry

“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”

Michael Monroe Musician
Creative

“A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.”

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Michael Patrick King Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Angry

“People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.”

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Michael Patrick King Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Creative

“Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.”

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Michael Patrick King Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Creative

“People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.”

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Michael Reagan Political Commentator, Author
Angry

“I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.”

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Michael Scott Business Executive
Creative

“I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!”