Pioneers Quotes - Page 7

• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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• McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Retail, Location

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• But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sight, Movement, Excitement

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

  Willa Cather

  Two Friends, Silence, Way

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Learning, School, Knowledge

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Names, California

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

  Rachel Dratch

  Women, Thinking, Childhood

  "Amy Poehler Talks to Rachel Dratch About Her Memoir". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.thedailybeast.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Support Systems, Champion

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• The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Yesterday, Marketing, Today

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• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Change, Stars, Past

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• We are all pioneers in the Age of Aquarius. No man can give a man anything other than love. No man can give a man anything other than hope. No man can give a man anything but service. The only thing you can do is act like a forklift-go into the dirt and lift the other person and put him on track, so he can proceed.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Men, Aquarius, Track

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• We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Math, Science

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• I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Father, Fighting, Men

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• Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

  Joanne Harris

  Fiction, Use, Metaphor

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• Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

  Joni Mitchell

  Home, Oxen, People

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• I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

  Andy Grove

  Thinking, Technology, Knowing

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

  Herbie Hancock

  Technology, Games, People

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• I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

  Edna Ferber

  Motivational, Acceptance, Men

  1929 Cimarron, ch.23.

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• The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

  Henry Ford

  Car, Way, Movement

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• And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

  David Livingstone

  Cheer, Promise, Rays

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• The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Real, War, Class

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• A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Cancer, Taken

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Maps

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Optimistic, Mean, Offensive

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