#ten

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#because #business #businesses #creed #decently

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#day #even #just #just one #lifetime

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#consumed #future #i #live #living

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#death #gay #me #mother #sentence

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#after #aggressive #american #american lives #bay

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#being #captured #felt #know #like

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#actions #aftermath #breakthroughs #carefully #country

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#anything #content #create #empower #everything

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#could #harmony #i #often #problems

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#equity #markets #tend