Sergio Marchionne Quotes

All are not hunters who blow the [hunting] horn.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.