Wyly Quotes

#1. Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

Charles Duhigg

#2. Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

Sam Wyly

#3. I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Sam Wyly

#4. I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

Sam Wyly

#5. I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

Sam Wyly

#6. Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Sam Wyly

#7. I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

Sam Wyly

#8. The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

Sam Wyly

#9. I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

Sam Wyly

#11. The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough. I shake my magic stick at you!" "Let me tell you what you can do with your stick ... "

Ilona Andrews

#12. In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

Sam Wyly

#13. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Albert Schweitzer

#14. I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

Sam Wyly

#15. The purpose of a business is to create customers.

Sam Wyly

#16. What is a man?
What is a woman?
Why are men and women attracted to each other?
Why do they desire each other?
Love ... what is it?

Yuu Watase

#17. I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

Mark Billingham

#18. Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Sam Wyly

#19. Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#20. While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

Ashwin Sanghi