Scale Quotes

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Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to… — J. Christopher Burch
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale. — Richard Siken
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result,… — John Katzman
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up. — Jodi Kantor
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided… — Mian Muhammad Mansha
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless… — Evelyn Lauder
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions… — Karl Lehmann
There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations. — Gloria Allred
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses… — Charles Francis Richter
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The… — Walter Weyl
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically… — Ivan Illich
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents.… — Frederick Lenz
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The… — Hermann Bondi
A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as… — Frederick Lenz
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning

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