#promise

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#producing #spoiled #time #utterly #world

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#aroused #compromise #done #i #interest

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#compromise #fight #going #hard #reasonable

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#best #certain #certain point #choices #create

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#did #had #hollywood #i #me

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#hopes #made #only #plans #promises

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#always #boy #girl #little #little girl