(339 quotes found)
“[Keeping CEOs from making dumb decisions has won fans among Canada's biggest money managers.] In the majority of cases, you would have been better off as a shareholder if the companies had paid out extra money to you, rather than reinvested it. Most management teams are not good at capital allocation, ... Look at BCE [Inc.]. Instead of buying all those businesses they then had to write off, it would have been better just to pay out the money.”
Brian Gibson
“Ignorance is a train - you can pretend to understand what the rest of the world is about, but you'll always end up right where you expected. Science is a balloon - you let go and find out what happens.”
Collin Lysford
“Boy was I dumb at first,”
Barbara Robinson
“Freedom is never free, but it also is never dumb.”
Marie-Suzanne Labelle (A.K.A Marie-Sue)
“It's dumb to be spending time to promote this issue because [the proposal] is removing people's rights as opposed to giving them rights.”
Alex Kelly
“What are they going to do with us? Are we just going to sit there and be dumb, like we were in slavery? No, we're going to keep on fighting to reach our goals.”
Adrian Hall
“I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.”
Aaron Allston
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“`Come all to church, good people,' - / Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; / I hear you, I will come.”
A. E. Housman
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