Distribution Quotes - Page 3

• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Energy, Railroads, Done

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• We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Opportunity, Working Together, Distribution Of Wealth

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

  Chad Hurley

  Video, Creation, Youtube

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• Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

  Peter Thiel

  Average, People, Normal

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• The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Important, Distribution Of Wealth, Creation

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• The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Sound, Fundamentals

  In a press conference, October 30, 1929.

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• There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Kind, Seems

  "Charlie Kaufman Talks About 'Anomalisa' And The Depressing Reasons There Haven’t Been More Charlie Kaufman Movies". Interview with Mike Ryan, uproxx.com. November 12, 2015.

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• And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

  Peter Sotos

  Selfish, Book, Ideas

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• Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Men, Literature

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• Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Real, Equality, Frustrated

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• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Names, Giving

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.1

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• HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.

  Merle Haggard

  Couple, Use, Records

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• People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

  Richard Neal

  Believe, People, Achievement

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• Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

  Don Henley

  Lying, Independent, Used

  "Music stars, reps clash in Congress over Napster" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. April 7, 2001.

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• All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Way, Wealth

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Acting, Actors

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Medicine, Understanding

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• Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

  Vinton Cerf

  Needs, May, Digital

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• If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

  Wallace Stevens

  Needs, Rivals, Addresses

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.144, Vintage

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• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Science, Hands, Probability Theory

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service

  Wangari Maathai

  Future, Justice, Long

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• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Rats, Normal

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.210, Random House

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• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Small Numbers, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.110

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• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

  Brion Gysin

  Real, Writing, Firsts

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