#sf

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big

When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time. ↗

— Rachel Perry

#always #ask #balance #celebrities #crazy

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#fortune #knocks #misfortune #more #much

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ↗

— Tom Peters

#customers #discovered #employees #formula #guests

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#along #back #change #change things #coming

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#language #me #native #nothing #people

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. ↗

— John Piper

#god #him #most #satisfied #us

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! ↗

— John Piper

#bedroom #blocks #cement #den #food

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. ↗

— John Piper

#essence #faith #god #jesus #satisfied