Achleitner Paul Quotes

#1. Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

Paul Achleitner

#2. There is explosive power in virtue.

Corrie Ten Boom

#3. It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Paul Achleitner

#4. Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

Paul Achleitner

#5. Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

Paul Achleitner

#6. Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

Paul Achleitner

#9. For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

Paul Achleitner

#10. Success, like happiness, is best pursued obliquely.

Maurice Holt

#11. You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

Dom Irrera

#12. A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.

Paul Achleitner

#13. A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Mark Rubinstein

#14. The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

Paul Achleitner

#15. Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

Paul Achleitner

#16. The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

Paul Achleitner

#17. Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

Eleanor Brown

#18. As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.

Cory Trepanier

#19. Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.

Paul Achleitner

#20. Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

Lawrence Bender

#21. Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

#22. Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

Fran Lebowitz