#vice

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies. ↗

— David Obey

#advertising #amount #buy #care #companies

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#call #cause #disagrees #disservice #loudly

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#battlefields #civil #civil war #continue #during

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#business #business model #choose #critical #depending

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#changed #devices #experience #going #how

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american politics #anything #avoidance #issues #politics

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #comforts #country #difficult #difficult time