All Quotes

"Theology is a magnificent science; it is theologians who are boring."

"The sight of priests has always moved me."

"Do not leave poisons on the bedside tables of the sick."

"We went online 10 years ago and it’s grown very organically."

"Educators must know how to measure the weight of what they promote."

"It’s important that financial and social sustainability go hand in hand, and that longer-term, intelligent and patient finance exists to support this concept."

"We are precluded from investing directly in the front line; it’s built into our governance. The reason for this is twofold."

"You don’t become a successful entrepreneur without weathering difficult times. So, suffer well and keep your mind."

"If you work hard and build it, they’ll come."

"as long as you’re being who you are to the best of your ability, and also figuring out who that is! Figuring out who you are."

"“It’s not about inclusive, so to speak,” Miss Diddy told BLACK ENTERPRISE. “It’s about the Black dollar, the Black person, the Black community. And that’s what we want to scream right now.”"

"“I am my audience. I’m still that little Black girl from Compton that is trying to figure it out. I’m still that girl, just on a different scale.""

"“I do believe in doing things unorthodox, but I’m a very old school type of person, and there’s a reason tradition is tradition. When you stay true to what you’re doing, you can only grow stronger. Doing every viral trend is a terrible idea. Some of them work, but they don’t last that long and everyone’s attention is so short.""

"“Get to the gatekeepers. It’s not about the number of followers. People that have influence is what matters.""

"“We understand that not only having a seat but creating the seats is w here the power is, and the power is what changes the world.""

"“I think that it’s important that you put people in positions because life is a roller coaster…Hopefully, whenever that time comes for life to drop for you, you put enough people in a position that they’re able to pull you right back up.""

"It is always good to reinvent yourself. That is why I am a stand-up comedian, TV producer, event producer and then being a first class master. At any point in time, one has to find a way to reinvent oneself."

"[...] philosophy is like the horizon, which can shift here and there, but, as a horizon, is always there."

"Every human is funny at one point in time. But what differentiates a professional comedian from every other person is the ability to study his audience and know what to say, when to say it and how to say it."

"In the past, comedy wasn’t lucrative but with the way things are going now, people are beginning to like the art."

"We were taught not to show up unless we had three new trends, so I learned quickly to observe what was going on and to recognise patterns"

"As long as I can remember I have always been thinking about magic in life and how things can be transformed."

"That was defining, I think. I have always felt like a citizen of the world, with a keen sense of what unites us. Had I never moved as a child, maybe I may not have been as entrepreneurial"

"I just never wavered in my belief,” she says. At the start, she adds: “I was a journalist. I had no business experience. But I did have innate people skills.” Her 15 years at Net-A-Porter, she says, “were my MBA. Very early on I realised that nobody was approaching the opportunity to serve consumers remotely and digitally in the way we were"

"We are seeing businesses in areas where consumers have previously been ignored, such as inclusive sizing"

"I came up with the name Imaginary when I left Net-A-Porter and I needed an email address, so I thought I’d better set up an LLC, though I didn’t know what it would be"

"If you could see three disparate indications of something new, and it didn’t matter if you saw it at a dinner party or on a bus, but if you saw three things that all pointed in one direction, you had a trend."

"The consumer wanted something new, but the stores were selling something old."

"And I thought, oh, wouldn’t it be amazing, if you could combine the impulse and the marketing of what was new, and allow the consumer to just click and magically receive something on their doorstep?"

"When I heard about doctors in Italy having to ration ventilators and then the incredibly likely possibility that that is going to happen here, my first thought was so many Black people are going to die."

"Sustainability is woven into everything we do as a business, from product development to supplier sourcing and auditing, packaging choices and giving, to operations and logistics."

"I truly believe that it’s through a holistic approach that we can drive real change and also support in educating our customers about the interconnected ecosystem making up their health."

"My journey began when I first developed IBS whilst in my early 20s. I spent a lot of my time (and money), trying different natural and pharmaceutical products to deal with my symptoms, which only made me feel worse. I couldn't find products that worked for me, or more importantly, that I wanted to take - that was really where the seed of The Nue Co. came from."

"We set out with a very simple aim, to change the way people feel about supplements."

"We always rely on data and science to kick off any sort of new product development. We look to ingredients as close to the food source as possible to deliver a nutrient or a vitamin, whilst focusing on absorption in its format"

"Starting my business] just made sense at the time"

"I feel like I had spent so many years, or maybe my whole life, gathering insights for THE NUE CO. From going to the herbalist with my mother to learning about vitamin B12 from my grandfather, who was a chemist. I felt like I had so much to offer to the category, and in all honesty, there was no job out there that really spoke to me, so I decided to create one"

"At that time [when we launched] (and for a while later), nothing else in my life mattered"

"“We continue to deliver, we continue to focus on what really matters.”"

"“more based in perception than reality”"

"“perceptions matter”."

"”we need to keep moving just to stand still.”"

"“maximize the potential for positive options.”"

"“A year in a startup is about seven years in corporate life.” As a founder, especially in your first few years of growing the business, you go through this torrent of emotional and psychological experiences within a compact period, and it’s not something you’re aware of until you’re deeply ingrained in building the business.""

"Just Do It — I know it sounds cliché, but I believe there is power in acting, and not overthinking things."

""The pace of change has been so fast that we need to be constantly on our toes.”"

"I was working at a public school and I felt like I was back in middle school again with the social environment and at the end of the year, I wasn’t asked back because they said I didn’t fit in. There was nothing wrong with my teaching. I had letters from all my parents saying that everything was fine. The other teachers just thought that I didn’t fit in. So that was when I went for a formal diagnosis."

"The aftermath of my husband’s suicide starting with the night that he was found when I went to the house with the police there was just a nightmare. The first night there was just — Instead of being able to concentrate on what was happening with my husband"

"I had written a book and I wanted to do something more in not just writing it but trying to put something in place to help people not go through the same thing I did so I had some emails out to certain organizations"

"It is important to note that, as the colors were chosen with care, there were colors not chosen with just as much, if not more, deliberate care as a way of showing her acceptance of me."