Kenneth Lay Quotes

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

We have an imbalance over how much we produce relative to how much we consume.

My relief of mind would be tremendous if we just had too much of something besides patriotism and spirit.

We have a ridiculous amount of material.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

When you’re dealing with a commodity, high productivity means that nobody makes any money.

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

I see business as an ecosystem.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.

We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Too much is the same as not enough.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.