Resources Quotes

If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

There are enormous resources in Greece.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

We often wait for the resources before we make a move.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.

There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions ofspheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.