Robert Rubin Quotes

#1. Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'

Carol Loomis

#2. Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. - ROBERT RUBIN,

Susan Cain

#3. I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products,

Robert Rubin

#4. When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

Toby Hemenway

#5. Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

Robert Rubin

#6. First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made.

Robert Rubin

#7. Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

Robert Rubin

#8. Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

Lights

#9. We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

Robert Rubin

#10. Enjoy The
Sound Of Silence.

Timothy Salter

#11. There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse.

San Juan De La Cruz

#13. We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

Robert Rubin

#14. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. I'm actually all for gay marriage. Just the thought of having a man around the house ...

Daniel Tosh

#16. We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.

Robert Rubin

#17. All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

Robert Rubin

#18. The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Robert Rubin

#19. Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'?

Wu Cheng'en

#20. My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain - as Robert Frost wrote, home is Something you somehow haven't to deserve.

Gretchen Rubin

#21. It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

Mel White

#22. In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

Robert Rubin

#23. I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

Mark McGwire

#24. I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

Robert Rubin

#25. To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

Robert Rubin

#26. Young sir," he said, "you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.

Leonard Holton

#27. In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

Johann Friedrich Herbart

#28. We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision

Velcrow Ripper

#29. I'm your fucking mate. This?" I cupped her pussy as I slid my fingers out of her, making her moan and shiver from the pressure of my palm against her swollen and sensitive clit. "This is mine now.

Ellis Leigh

#30. I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

Robert Rubin

#31. The truth is none of us always does what's right or fair.

Patricia Cornwell