Richard Kinder Quotes

#1. Wisdom brings a wholeness which understands its own ignorance. Someone with a little knowledge denies this, but those who study their lives long and diligently know they do not know anything.

Bahauddin

#2. I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

Richard Simmons

#3. I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

Richard Kinder

#4. You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship, and mutual support. You see feudalism, we see mutual responsibility. You see the oppression of women, we see the defense of modesty.

Michael Gruber

#5. It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

Lorne Michaels

#6. We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

Richard Kinder

#7. A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

Richard Selzer

#8. I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.

Richard Kinder

#9. There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#10. If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring.

Larissa Ione

#11. How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

Denis Leary

#12. We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.

Richard Kinder

#13. You can't speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?

DMX

#14. We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

Richard Kinder

#15. When Bill Morgan and I formed Kinder Morgan in February of 1997, it had about $300 million in enterprise value.

Richard Kinder

#16. Even through the unseen, I know that God watches,
From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

Common

#17. If you own a toll road, you don't care how many passengers are in each car or what kind of car it is. You just want as many cars to move down the road as possible, and you make damn certain they pay their tolls, okay?

Richard Kinder

#18. If people think we can draw a circle around North America and that we can be an independent island of energy, that's not realistic. This is a world market for oil, for refined products, and increasingly, for natural gas.

Richard Kinder

#19. This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture.

Richard Kinder

#20. We want to move along and make sure, both internally and externally, that people realize how the company is being run, and it's being run by a group of people now, not just me.

Richard Kinder

#21. If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

Richard Louv

#22. A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

Richard Kinder

#23. Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Amy Grant

#24. Sent as a present from Annam
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.

Bai Juyi

#25. I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Richard Kinder