#though

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#challenge #chance #could #else #enormous

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#corporate #corporate america #everything #in my opinion #opinion

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#although #before #calling #colors #commission

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#artillery #crashing #deep #effect #extraordinary

Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#anywhere #automobile #broken #eight #get

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#dressed #hard #know #like #saw

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music. ↗

— Robby Krieger

#doing #got #i #jazz #know

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#conforms #consistent #groove #pattern #person

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#balance #better #car #emotions #energy