Quotes with labor-making

Quotes 301 till 320 of 749.

  • Barry Ritholtz Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • T. S. Eliot It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Jim Rohn It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Vita Sackville-West It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Donald Rumsfeld It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Folds It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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