Owners Quotes - Page 5

• I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Believe, Sacrifice, America

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Division, Fundamentals

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Crazy

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

  John Sununu

  Views, Political, Trying

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

  James Surowiecki

  Small Numbers, Corporations, Reason

  "Private Lies". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Gold

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

  Michael Symon

  Family, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Favour, Capitalist, Stills

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• Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Justice, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.87, Penguin

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  Donald Trump

  Boss, Firsts, Type

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• No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

  Alvaro Uribe

  Country, Suffering, Colombia

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  Earl Warren

  Nature, Justice, Important

  "Earl Warren : A Political Biography" by Leo Katcher, (p. 315), 1967.

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• People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

  Jay Weatherill

  People, Want, Able

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• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Together

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Peace, People

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• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

  Betty White

  Years, Track, Pet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, War, Life Is

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• A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Real, Titles, Deeds

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  Frances Wright

  Christmas, Pet, Littles

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• A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

  Loretta Young

  Stars, Fall, Lovely

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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