#yea

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#been #care #dictator #law #putin

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back? ↗

— Lexa Doig

#been #bringing #eighties #fun #making

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#every #goal #had #i #list

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#had #i #juan #married #me

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #going #huge #keeping #me

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#businesses #fax #first #had #i

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #item #million #off #revenue

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#any #anybody #been #beginning #commanded

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#failure #get #go #got #had

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#decided #england #first #go #had