Top 95 Mellon Quotes

#1. I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

Tamara Mellon

#2. In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

#3. You can't mine coal without machine guns.

Richard B. Mellon

#4. A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

Tamara Mellon

#5. It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

#6. They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

Will Rogers

#7. By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.

Keith Rothfus

#8. A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

Tamara Mellon

#9. It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.

Tamara Mellon

#10. I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

Tamara Mellon

#11. Intuition is the number one tool in the toolbox.

Matthew Mellon

#12. If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Tamara Mellon

#13. equality. Qatar has adopted the Education City project, in which it has invited a collection of prestigious American universities to open up branches here in Doha. Some of these universities include Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service,

Carol Henderson

#14. If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

Andrew Mellon

#15. The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Tamara Mellon

#16. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Andrew Mellon

#17. My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

Tamara Mellon

#18. We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

Mitch Kapor

#19. There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.

Daniel H. Wilson

#20. As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#21. As secretary, Mellon was a pioneer of supply-side economics, cutting tax rates in order to spur investment and economic

Jeff Miller

#22. I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

Tamara Mellon

#23. Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Paul Mellon

#24. I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

Tamara Mellon

#25. Nothing should be noticed.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#26. I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

Tamara Mellon

#27. The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

Tamara Mellon

#28. I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#29. When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.

Luis Von Ahn

#30. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Mellon

#31. College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Paul Mellon

#32. A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

#33. I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Tamara Mellon

#34. My daughter is my passion and my life.

Tamara Mellon

#35. If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

Tamara Mellon

#36. Carnegie Mellon finished a well-controlled study showing that people with richer social ties got fewer common colds.

Anonymous

#37. My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

Tamara Mellon

#38. Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

Andrew Mellon

#39. Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Andrew Mellon

#40. My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

Tamara Mellon

#41. I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#42. You know I'm weak on good looks.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#43. Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.

Nancy Mellon

#44. Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.

Sebastian Thrun

#45. When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Paul Mellon

#46. Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

Tamara Mellon

#47. I went to Carnegie Mellon.

Patina Miller

#48. I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

Tamara Mellon

#49. The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

Paul Mellon

#50. I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

Tamara Mellon

#51. I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels.

Tamara Mellon

#52. When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tamara Tunie

#53. I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.

John Wells

#54. I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

Tamara Mellon

#55. I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

Loudon Wainwright III

#56. When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

Tamara Mellon

#57. The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

Tamara Mellon

#58. I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University ... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

Laura San Giacomo

#59. People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

Tamara Mellon

#60. Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

Joe Manganiello

#61. No reprimand in the mirror
Slow walk to Liberia
Slow dance across the Sahara
Slow unraveling of gray matter

Mellon Black

#62. It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Tamara Mellon

#63. When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

Tamara Mellon

#64. Wild flowers grow where they will.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#65. The Government's business is in sound condition.

Andrew Mellon

#66. And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.

Carnegie Mellon

#67. The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

Micky Mellon

#68. Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Andrew Mellon

#69. Mellon is thirteen," Raisa said. "I hope you have experience babysitting, Micah, because you're going to need it. Assuming the Demonai don't assassinate you first. Married at thirteen, widowed at fourteen. Poor Mellony.

Cinda Williams Chima

#70. There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

Tamara Mellon

#71. Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.

Jeffrey Archer

#72. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

Tamara Mellon

#73. The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

Thomas Mellon

#74. I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

John Wozniak

#75. Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#76. I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

David M. Kelley

#77. It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

Thomas Mellon

#78. Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Thomas Mellon

#79. There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

Andrew Mellon

#80. Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

Paul Mellon

#81. Someone once told me women want to be understood, while men want to be accepted.

Opal Mellon

#82. I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

Andrew Mellon

#83. George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon provides one of the simplest definitions of curiosity: the feeling of deprivation that comes from an information gap between what we know and what we want to know. Separately,

Philip Kotler

#84. You would think you could just stick a goddamn sword through 'em and be done with it.

Kat Mellon

#85. As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.

Tamara Mellon

#86. A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Andrew Mellon

#87. I always said I was determined to own a truly global brand. I didn't buy Jimmy Choo just to have a couple of shoe shops in London, did I?

Tamara Mellon

#88. Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance

Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education.

Paul Ellis

#89. I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#90. Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Paul Mellon

#91. Is this where the light faded out forever?
Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue?
Where hand no longer wandered over curious texture?
Where words no longer moved past lips but died in a quiver?

Mellon Black

#92. In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

Paul Mellon

#93. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

Paul Mellon

#94. Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

Andrew Mellon

#95. The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

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