Chief Quotes

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.