QuotesMing.com
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
●
Home
»
Topics
»
I Topics
Interest Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.”
John D. Rockefeller
2.
“The purpose of a pitch is to stimulate interest, not to close a deal.”
Guy Kawasaki
3.
“Make relationships at work. Be genuinely interested in people.”
Ankur Warikoo
4.
“We let folks know we’re interested in them and that they’re vital to us. cause they are.”
Sam Walton
5.
“I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.”
Jimmy Carter
6.
“Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they’ll be interested in the car.”
V.S. Naipaul
7.
“I love to read and watch movies.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
8.
“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country’s interest, know not anything to be just or unjust by any measure but that.”
Plutarch
9.
“The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, ‘I’m not interested.’ You should try it. Don’t offer a reason why you aren’t interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There’s no argument against a lack of interest.”
Scott Adams
10.
“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”
Leonard Cohen
11.
“Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.”
Leonard Cohen
12.
“The world interests me only in the degree to which it stimulates my passions.”
Stendhal
13.
“That’s the secret: be interesting. If you can’t be interesting, shut up. There’s nothing wrong with silence.”
Earl Nightingale
14.
“Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.”
Henry Ward Beecher
15.
“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”
Gustave Flaubert
16.
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
Gustave Flaubert
17.
“A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.”
Thomas Carlyle
18.
“I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
19.
“I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted,” said Egremont.”
Benjamin Disraeli
20.
“There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse.”
Benjamin Disraeli
21.
“The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”
Karl Marx
22.
“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”
Karl Marx
23.
“In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.”
Henry Kissinger
24.
“You don’t have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.”
Norman Vincent Peale
25.
“The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting.”
Richard P. Feynman
26.
“Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.”
Charlie Munger
27.
“Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.”
Charlie Munger
28.
“In my life there are not that many questions I can’t properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.”
Charlie Munger
29.
“Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.”
Charlie Munger
30.
“My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.”
Osho Rajneesh
31.
“Tell a man something new and you have his attention. Give it a personal twist or show its relation to his business and you have his interest.”
Robert Collier
32.
“I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.”
George Washington
33.
“In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.”
George Washington
34.
“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
George Washington
35.
“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
Pablo Picasso
36.
“I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.”
Pablo Picasso
37.
“Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.”
Suze Orman
38.
“If you’re doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can’t stop it. Move forward. It’s not worth losing any sleep over.”
Jeff Bezos
39.
“There are two levers for moving men – interest and fear.”
Nepolian Bonaparte
40.
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
Nepolian Bonaparte
41.
“The historian’s distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”
Howard Zinn
42.
“It’s endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.”
Gloria Steinem
43.
“Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree, you can f**k off.”
Richard Dawkins
44.
“The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.”
Thomas Paine
45.
“Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.”
Thomas Paine
46.
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
Jonathan Swift
47.
“Business is full of complexities. That’s what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it’s boring hasn’t given it much thought.”
Donald Trump
48.
“A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I’m in. But I don’t have any real interest in running for office. I’m more interested in supporting people.”
Donald Trump
49.
“I was, from a young age, extremely interested in science and space and technology.”
Neil Armstrong
50.
“We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one.”
Yuval Noah Harari
1
2
3
Next
Deaths
Khalil Gibran
1931
New Authors
Ivan Turgenev
Camille Paglia
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Guy Kawasaki
Mitch Hedberg
Charles Lamb
Margaret Fuller
Steven Wright
Top Authors
Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lennon
Oscar Wilde
Popular Topics
Love
Life
Motivational
Friendship
Success
Humor
Inspirational
Wisdom
Courage
Happiness