Widgets Quotes

#1. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.

S.A. Tawks

#2. Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.

Peter Fader

#3. Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

Charlie Munger

#4. We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Brian Cox

#5. Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

Denis Boyles

#6. Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

Will Self

#7. Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Kara Swisher

#8. An economy made of paper could never be as strong as one of bricks, guns and widgets.

Ivo Stourton

#9. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? 100 minutes OR 5 minutes

Daniel Kahneman

#10. Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Seth Godin

#11. Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

Simon Mainwaring

#12. The history of technology tells us that inventions are two a penny. There are many, many people who invent new things: machines, processes, tools, gizmos, gadgets, widgets, and the like. Such people are often portrayed as unsung heroes, ahead of their field, unrecognized in their own time

Anonymous

#13. Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

Kevin Systrom

#14. Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Gary Hamel

#15. Small things bring joy, somedays.

Warren Ellis

#16. When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

Jackie Speier

#17. Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

Robin Cousins

#18. I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

Erol Alkan

#19. Instruct decently.
Instruct discerningly.
Instruct disarmingly.
Instruct diplomatically.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- Romeo -

William Shakespeare

#21. It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

Thomas Hobbes

#22. Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

Nido R. Qubein

#23. Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Michael Caine

#24. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#25. I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. I casually lean against the mailbox and pretend to ignore the fact that she totally just checked me out. I'll ignore it to save her embarassment, but I'm definitely not going to forget it. In fact, I'll probably be thinking about the way her eyes scrolled down my body for the rest of the damn day.

Colleen Hoover

#27. As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Tori Amos