Mortimer Zuckerman Quotes

• Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Inspirational, Business, Helping

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• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Government, Benefits, Pay

  "America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Mother, Nature, New Orleans

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• He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Thinking, Personality, Doe

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• Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Sex, Law, Opposites

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• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

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  Dream, Home, Reality

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• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Upset, Kind

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• Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Faith, Government, Two

  "Losing Faith In The Zombie-Run Government". www.businessinsider.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Inspirational, Horse, Advice

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• Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

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  Population, Today, April

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• Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Dog, Serenity, Chocolate

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Jobs, Moving

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• The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Money, Unique, May

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

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  Islands, Erosion, Wetlands

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• The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Home, Long, Demand

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