Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital."
Velocity quotes
Velocity
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
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"If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity."
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"My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift."
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"A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success."
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"He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for."
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"She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins."
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"Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle."
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