Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Bert Lance

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Bert Lance.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Bert Lance

Thomas Bertram "Bert" Lance was an American businessman who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter in 1977. He is known mainly for resigning from the Carter administration because of a scandal during his first year in office. However, he was later cleared of all charges.

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.
In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed. — © Bert Lance
In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.'
I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.
It's never easy to say you're sorry.
I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.
Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.
Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
I'm a futures man.
I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
If you have a situation where you need help, it doesn't make any difference where it comes from. — © Bert Lance
If you have a situation where you need help, it doesn't make any difference where it comes from.
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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