Ernesto Sirolli Quotes

#1. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Ernesto Sirolli

#2. It is hard to find a good survival strategy that will work simultaneously against multiple threats.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.

Ernesto Sirolli

#4. When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.

Bonnie McFarlane

#5. If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.

Ernesto Sirolli

#6. Nobody in the world can succeed alone.

Ernesto Sirolli

#7. It cost me my identity. Being molested created such sexual and emotional confusion that I was an old man before I was fifteen and still a boy at thirty. I felt numb and removed, like I was not there, just a piece of property for others to use and discard.

Gregory R. Reid

#8. The first principle of aid is respect.

Ernesto Sirolli

#9. ...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Happy are they whose pens fly across the page; I myself hesitate, I falter. I become angry and fearful. My drive diminishes as my taste improves. I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well proportioned paragraph.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

Ernesto Sirolli

#12. I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about.

Sharron Angle

#13. If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#15. What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

Ernesto Sirolli

#16. There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Ernesto Sirolli

#17. Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can't become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

Kirk Cameron