Principal Quotes

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.