“What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about… — Marc Singer Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm,… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not… — Betty White Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The… — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house,… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
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