Words matter. These are the best Concession Quotes from famous people such as Beny Steinmetz, Steve Wynn, Tom Junod, Howard Hughes, Rene Russo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you sell a prospecting concession, you’re only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
I’m six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It’s reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I’ll become a madman.
Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
I spent a year slaving over a hot rollergrill in a Metrodome concession stand and watched the World Series there – and a Super Bowl and a Final Four. I can honestly say – regardless of outcome – that I left every game floating on air.
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.
For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, ‘Women’s rights are human rights,’ and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the ’18 million cracks’ in the glass ceiling.
I have to say I’ve worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
The Shiv Sena manifesto had promised concession in power bills. It was a poll promise which will be fulfilled.
I believe in diplomacy; I don’t believe in talking to… that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
