The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global -… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular,… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
“Your true value is not known till you become a scarce one.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way. — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that! — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.” — Susan E. Isaacs Copy Share Image