Magnate's Quotes

#1. Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Mark McKinnon

#2. Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Mark Nepo

#3. Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Skylar Grey

#4. Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.

Clive Barker

#5. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)

Eleanor Catton

#6. The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

Anita Nair

#8. Inner negativity will attract negative energies from the universe. So be watchful of your thoughts. Don't be a magnate of negativity.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#9. I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody...

Harper Lee

#10. Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Kenneth Atchity

#11. It's all a rather dark shade of gray. But that's a color all of us are familiar with, aren't we?

Shannon Messenger

#12. I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#13. Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

Karen Finerman

#14. As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests and ideals.

Walter Isaacson

#15. My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Andrew Hudgins

#16. The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

Gary Zukav

#17. I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

Vikas Swarup

#18. The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.

Paul Mason

#19. If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.

George Brett

#20. I've never wanted to be a star, never.

Emmanuelle Riva

#21. The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

Stefan Zweig

#22. Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

Joan Robinson