Skin In The Game Quotes

#1. When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Jerry Weintraub

#2. If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

David Ignatius

#3. There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#4. The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.

Richard Thaler

#5. I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

David Packard

#6. While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

Meryl Streep

#7. I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Brigitte Bardot

#8. We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind

#9. Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.

David Foster Wallace

#10. Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.

Josh Peck

#11. I grunted. "She's not a delicate princess," I said. "She's a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt." I felt my jaws clench. "And then their friends even things up.

Jim Butcher

#12. Official truths are often powerful illusions.

John Pilger

#13. I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

Sheryl Crow

#14. People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

Anna Quindlen

#15. I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce. We've had the sexual revolution. We've had, you know, the pill, and burning bras and rampant premarital sex and polymorphous perversity.

Ann Coulter

#16. To console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.

L. Frank Baum

#17. Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

Rick Riordan

#18. When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

Michael Bloomberg

#19. Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.

Michel Leiris

#20. I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

Simone Elkeles

#21. The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.

Jim Butcher

#22. I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#23. Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

C.K. Kelly Martin