Owners Quotes - Page 20

• During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

  Peter Golenbock

  Baseball, Running, New York

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• We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Want, Kind

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• Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.

  Frank Hall

  Animal, Space, Squirrels

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• The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.

  Simon Jenkins

  Government, Wind, Appreciate

  "Ecotowns and turbines are a political slap in the face of the landscape" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Essence

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• This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

  George Carlin

  Country, Men, Psychics

  "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Health, Doctors

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• We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, Obesity, Too Short

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Pieces, Paper

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• For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Should Have, Wife, Benefits

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.51, Broadview Press

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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• Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

  Michael Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Pet

  "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World". Book by Michael Lewis, 2011.

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• Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Horse, Men

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• A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Thinking, Fog, Bridges

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• If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

  Andrew Jackson

  Numbers, Car, Cigarette

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• The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
  energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Safe, Passionate

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• And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

  Lynn Swann

  Loyalty, Team, Player

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• Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Slim, Chance

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• The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, Kind, Worst

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1041, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

  Roger Goodell

  Player, Decision, Clubs

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  Cost Of Living, People, Political

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Running, Growing

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• Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it's important for owners to understand that a dog park isn't exercise and isn't a substitute for walk. A visit to the dog park is fun - play time.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Fun, Exercise

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