Burd Quotes

#1. A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Cab Calloway

#2. Where the laws are not authoritative demagogues arise. For the populace becomes a monarch when it turns from many into a single composite, since the many are in authority not as particular persons but all together.

Aristotle.

#3. A weekly bath is enough for most kids up until they are nearing the tween years, and then twice a week is probably enough most of the time.

Anonymous

#4. Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.

Nick Burd

#5. The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.

Angus Buchan

#6. Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

Nick Burd

#7. If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

Steven Burd

#8. I felt the vacuum in him. It was the same as the one in me. It wanted, but it didn't know what it wanted, so it pulled at everything.

Nick Burd

#9. We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

Steven Burd

#10. If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Edie Sedgwick

#11. In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

Steven Burd

#12. I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

Steven Burd

#13. I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

Steven Burd

#14. We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Steven Burd

#15. The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

Steven Burd

#16. Getting older isn't always about having fun," he said. "In fact, in many ways it's about being bored. It's good if you can find a way to be entertained by your boredom.

Nick Burd

#17. The world is vast and meant for wandering.

Nick Burd

#18. Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

Nick Burd

#19. I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

Nick Burd

#20. Love. People threw that word around like carzy.

Nick Burd

#21. People like to work for a winner.

Steven Burd

#22. The grass is never greener on the other side. You can only hope that with enough hard work, time, and luck that yours will become whatever shade the spray paint bottle said it would.

Lauren Burd

#23. The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Steven Burd

#24. I recommend against putting your fist through your monitor.

Barry Burd

#25. Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.

Nick Burd

#26. Gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier.

Nick Burd

#27. Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Chris Murray

#28. I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

Princess Diana

#29. We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

Steven Burd

#30. The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

Niall Ferguson

#31. Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

Nick Burd

#32. When everyone else values you only for your production, it is difficult to remember God simply values you for who you are.

Jeff Iorg

#33. You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

Steven Burd

#34. The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

Steven Burd

#35. What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

Steven Burd