Jeff Roach > Jeff's Quotes

“Politics and the stock market are the two most ruthless environments outside an actual battlefield. The market creates and destroys wealth; politics creates and destroys power. Power and wealth are both highly prized, and those who acquire large amounts of either are unlikely to be gentle souls.”
― John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper

“we have never had a politician who divides people the way Harper has divided us. Partly it’s the times; partly it’s the man.”
― John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper

“Learning what laws can do, for good or ill, to transform society was a revelation.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“The open-mindedness we were taught, that willingness and desire to hear out the other side of an argument, is also fundamentally, profoundly a Canadian value.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“In 1995, the result of the PQ-mandated second referendum on Québec independence was such a close call that in many other countries it might have degenerated into civil conflict. But that didn’t happen. Why not? Maybe because on all of those occasions we kept talking, since we know in our heart of hearts that what we’ve got is worth keeping.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“We are not engaged in a war against “one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever faced,” as Stephen Harper recently claimed in reference to ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Talk such as that, especially on the part of a sitting prime minister, is unconscionable and an affront to all those who served in two world wars, including my uncles, who must be rolling over in their graves.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”
― Bono, U2 by U2

“We just go where we want to go, do what we want to do, and become who we want to become. We want to be unique, but we want to be unique in groups. We want to stand out, but we want to stand out together. In the age of easy group-forming, the basic unit of measurement is not the segment but the tribe.”
― Marty Neumeier, Brand Flip, The: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it

“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”
― Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.”
― Richie Norton

“In the absence of verifiable truth, competing narratives will vie for allegiance. When we are forced to compete in a battle of narratives, inclusion is still our best weapon: only by leveraging a diversity of voices can we create a winning narrative.”
― Martin E. Dempsey, Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership