Goods Quotes - Page 31

• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is
  mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering
  what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I’ll give you
  a hint... it has to do with creating and sharing.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Order, Creating

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• Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

  Henry Ford

  Machinery

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  World, Businessman, Supplies

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Doe, Way

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.20, Penguin

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• When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow your hunger instincts, well, I really just want to pinch their heads off. That's like a millionaire suggesting that instead of worrying about that's in your bank account, just listen to your shopping instincts and buy high-quality goods . . . weight loss is not magic. To a great extent, it's accounting.

  Chalene Johnson

  Loss, Shopping, Quality Goods

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.113, Rodale

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• It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.

  William Goyen

  Country, Writing, Order

  William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Teenager, Asking, London

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• I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Believe, Order, Evil

  Letter to Louis Bourguet in late 1712. "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 208, 2006.

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• Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Government, Hands

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

  Stuart Chase

  Depression, Years, America

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• Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

  George Santayana

  Love, Light, Illustration

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.27, MIT Press

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• Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.

  Nalini Singh

  Healing, Damaged Goods, Said

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.220, Penguin

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• I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

  Leonard Baskin

  Attitude, Thinking, Roots

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• Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

  Kin Hubbard

  Teacher, Entrepreneur, Dear

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings".

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• All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Perfect, Desire, World

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• Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

  Mike May

  Sedentary

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• The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Positive Attitude, Light

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 19, 2013

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• Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.

  Ibn Majah

  Love You, People, Desire

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• The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

  Akio Morita

  Real, People, Trying

  "The Book of Management Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Managers" edited by Peter Krass, (p. 235), 2000.

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• Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Average, Zimbabwe

  Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.

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• It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Party, Commodity

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.384

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• When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

  Carroll Quigley

  Division Of Labor, Common, Process

  "The Evolution of Civilizations". Book by Carroll Quigley, Second Edition 1979, Chapter 8, Canaanite and Minooan Civilizations, p. 241, 1961.

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• If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Moving, Increase, Rate

  "Railway Budget". The Times of India, July 7, 2004.

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