Stefano Pessina Quotes

#1. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.

Kathleen Norris

#2. There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Life is the ability to start over again.

Joan D. Chittister

#4. I was so fired up to protect myself from you playin' games with my heart, I played yours.

Kristen Ashley

#5. I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Stefano Pessina

#6. The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Iggy Pop

#7. I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

Stefano Pessina

#8. Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Stefano Pessina

#9. I want to hate you, but I can't even stay mad at you. (Jericho)
You know, I think you're more in need of lessons on how to seduce than I am. Why don't you call me fat and ugly while you're at it? (Delphine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

Kim Ji-woon

#11. My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Stefano Pessina

#12. There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Orlando Figes

#13. The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

Gerry Spence

#14. Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak

Denis Healey

#15. What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Daniel C. Dennett

#16. You are born into this world without choice, into a familial, social, educational, political and geographical environment that is merely accidental. And for the rest of your life, everyone will try to convince you that you are responsible for this accident.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

Redd Foxx

#18. These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

Lauren Graham

#19. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.

K.M. Walton