All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.


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LEE RUBIN
They probably would not have explored the opportunity had they not had the exposure.
LEE RUBIN
My family kind of freaked out because this is a big season, not only for me but for our team. We had...
LEE RUBIN
Coach Sheridan does a really good job of bringing good pitchers in here, transfers and freshmen, he ...
LEE RUBIN
Rather than rotting in a jail, he might consider the ultimate martyrdom to be being put to death by ...
LEE RUBIN
The first question is, Is it truthful? Or is he committing suicide, effectively?
LEE RUBIN
Humanitarian suffering and destruction could well exceed that of the 1998 offensive.
JAMES RUBIN
I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.
MARTY RUBIN
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
MARTY RUBIN
The wise oyster stays in its shell.
MARTY RUBIN
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music...
RICK RUBIN
All explanations tend to be self-serving.
MARTY RUBIN
What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
MARTY RUBIN
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do ...
RICK RUBIN
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpe...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my ca...
AVI RUBIN
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you u...
AVI RUBIN
The backseat produced the sexual revolution
JERRY RUBIN
It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but do...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Never unite in a cause, only in love.
MARTY RUBIN
Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.
MARTY RUBIN
It's not gangbusters. It's a few here, a few there. But mostly, the bleeding has stopped.
KATE RUBIN
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
MARTY RUBIN
You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.
MARTY RUBIN
What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, r...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I ma...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented:...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have e...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's p...
GRETCHEN RUBIN