Firebrand Book Quotes

#1. If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

Henry Kravis

#2. My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Yves Behar

#3. John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Russell Banks

#4. He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers.

R.D. Ronald

#5. Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Marianne Williamson

#6. O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

William Shakespeare

#7. A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Henry Hazlitt

#8. Mr. Oamaru has taught me that loss isn't just limited to the present; it can happen in any direction. Even what's done and vanished can be taken from you. Other, earlier memories that we made of my father sink and revert to water

Karen Russell

#9. And he simply would not tolerate any other high-ranking officer, commissioned or noncommissioned, reaming out one of his guys. He

Marcus Luttrell

#10. The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

Henry James

#11. Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Lord Byron

#12. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Charley Reese