Henry Singleton Quotes

#1. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty

#2. The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me

Drake

#3. I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

Henry Earl Singleton

#4. I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

Tamara Tunie

#5. Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.

Henry Earl Singleton

#6. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. Creativity is always from the beyond.

Rajneesh

#9. While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Hyde

#10. If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

Ann Curry

#11. [The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.

Hilary Mantel

#12. I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

Henry Earl Singleton

#13. I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

Lady Gaga

#14. And you don t have to sleep alone you don t even have to sleep at all and so all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say Thank God for nothing.

William Faulkner

#15. The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

Ridley Scott

#16. Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

David S.Goyer

#17. It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.

Henry Earl Singleton

#18. You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth ... Each person enters the world called.

James Hillman

#19. The marks that humans leave, are too often scars.

John Green

#20. I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.

Henry Earl Singleton

#21. The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Christian Nestell Bovee