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JEFFREY SACHS There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
JEFFREY GITOMER At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ...
JEFFREY GITOMER What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr...
JEFFREY KLUGER The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st...
JEFFREY GITOMER I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ...
JEFFREY SKOLL Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p...
JEFFREY GITOMER The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i...
JEFFREY SACHS I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ...
JEFFREY GITOMER The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ...
JEFFREY SATINOVER We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav...
JEFFREY SACHS Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ...
JEFFREY KLUGER The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning...
JEFFREY ARCHER It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr...
JEFFREY BELL Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN