Owner's Share Quotes
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Owner's Share Quotes
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“I made a mental note to figure out some way to stop making mental notes and start making real notes. That way I might be able to delegate a few of them, and even remember what they were.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“We can live in fear, or not.”
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― Owner's Share
“As soon as you think you know what’s going on, that’s the first sign that you haven’t a clue.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“My father always told me that chasing after everything I wanted was a fool’s game, but that wanting everything I had would bring me happiness.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“Ms. Arellone and Ms. Maloney were still debating decor, and I waited to see who would win. In a test of stubbornness between either of them and a rock, I’d bet on the rock to lose. We”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“What I do know is that worrying about it keeps me from doing the things I can do. If I can compartmentalize that by saying ‘Trust Iris,’ that’s good enough for me.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“When you work for yourself? The boss is a jerk. Try not to let it bother you.”
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― Owner's Share
“You’re such a bundle of what-ifs and might-bes, you’re letting what you have slip away. My father always told me that chasing after everything I wanted was a fool’s game, but that wanting everything I had would bring me happiness.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“My father always told me that chasing after everything I wanted was a fool’s game, but that wanting everything I had would bring me happiness”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“When you get to be my age, people are sometimes fooled into thinking you know something.”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all,”
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― Owner's Share
“One might argue that I could have been smarter, but hindsight is a useless guide to the past. At best it gives us the lessons we need to take into the future”
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― Owner's Share
“It’s because I don’t know much about this place and I’m constantly asking the kinds of questions that nobody else does because they already know the answers. I’m so dumb, I have to ask.”
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― Owner's Share
“she made her money by being a shrewd judge of character. Mean people only see other people as mean. It’s all they know, and they distrust anybody who isn’t”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“when you let fear rule your life, your life isn’t worth keeping”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“Anything we do now means we won’t have to do it later, and we’ll be that much closer to getting underway.” “True,”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“Nothing teaches ya what ya don’t know like trying to teach somebody else, now does”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“She kissed me on the top of my head. “Thank you, dear.” She made little shooing motions with her fingers. “Now, get out of my way. I have work to do, and I can’t be tripping over captains while I’m doin’ it. Scoot. Shoo. Go captain something.”
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― Owner's Share
“Well, ain’t you Mister Wisdom!” she said with a grin. “That’s Captain Wisdom to you.”
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― Owner's Share
“You’re either the bravest man I’ve ever met, or the dumbest.” “Those aren’t mutually exclusive,”
― Owner's Share
― Owner's Share
“Chief Gerheart opened the conversation with, “So, Captain? What are you going to do when you’re filthy rich?” She’d recovered some of her spark and I liked the attention.”
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― Owner's Share
“Maybe he was just one of those people who didn’t like change.”
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― Owner's Share
“When you own the cookie store, you get your choice of cookies, Captain Wang.”
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― Owner's Share
“Christine is his daughter. Sole heir. Thirty-one. Likes her nightlife, I understand.” I sipped carefully before speaking. “And she’s the new CEO?” “Uh huh.” I glanced over to where Kirsten studied my face over the rim of her cup. “What does she know about running a shipping company?” “Not. One. Damn. Thing.”
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― Owner's Share
“You have some complaints about how I run this ship, Chief?” I snapped at her and regretted it even as the words left my mouth. She shook her head briefly. “No, Captain.” She gave the title special emphasis. “You’ve turned the ship around since you’ve been here, given us all new life.” She paused, staring into my face without flinching. “It’s how you’re running your life that worries me.” “What’s the matter with the way I’m running my life?” The hardness in her face softened a bit. “You’re an idiot.”
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― Owner's Share
“I left her there sitting at the console watching the approaching planet, and trying to get her mind around the difference between what she believed and what she knew.”
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― Owner's Share
“Negotiations lasted a couple of stans but in the end, I believe we pounded out a lasting agreement.”
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― Owner's Share