Jay Heinrichs Quotes

#1. The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappeared completely to occupy the world of whatever book I was reading.

Petina Gappah

#3. You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

Jay Heinrichs

#4. If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Jay Heinrichs

#6. Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Jay Heinrichs

#7. The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

Richard Branson

#8. Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alfred Marshall

#9. Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack ... taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Jay Heinrichs