I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. - Kobe Bryant
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. - Kobe Bryant
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. - Kobe Bryant
Leadership is lonely ... I'm not going to be afraid of confrontation to get us to where we need to go. - Kobe Bryant
There's a big misconception where people thinking winning or success comes from everybody putting their arms around each other and singing kumbaya and patting them on the back when they mess up, and that's just not reality. If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable. - Kobe Bryant
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favoured rather than those who provide what consumers want. - Charles G. Koch
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed. - Charles G. Koch
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. - Charles G. Koch
I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished. - Charles G. Koch
Just as central planning is a failure in running government, so it is at the level of the firm. - Charles G. Koch
Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favour of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market. - Charles G. Koch
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful. - Charles G. Koch
Prosperity is only possible in a system where property rights are clearly and properly defined and protected, people are free to speak, exchange and contract, and prices are free to guide beneficial action. - Charles G. Koch
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff. - Charles G. Koch
To the person with only a hammer and no understanding, every problem looks like a nail. - Charles G. Koch
We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law. - Charles G. Koch
When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything. - Charles G. Koch
A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know. - Goldie Hawn
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money. - Goldie Hawn
Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now. - Goldie Hawn
Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing. - Goldie Hawn
During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.' - Goldie Hawn
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