Owners Quotes - Page 5

• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

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• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  Pope John Paul II

  Justice, Violence, Social

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• Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

  Rand Paul

  Government, Doe, Restaurants

  "Rand Paul, telling the truth". "Right Now" with David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

  Pitbull

  Fighting

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

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• The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

  Harold Prince

  Truth Is, Reason, Absurd

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• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  Ted Rall

  Boss, Firsts, Steps

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• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

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• Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Justice, Political

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• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  Karl Rove

  Justice, Empathy, Understanding

  "Republicans and Obama's Court Nominees" by Karl Rove, www.wsj.com. May 7, 2009.

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• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

  Dan Savage

  War, Slave Owners, Slavery

  "Dan Savage Under Fire After Challenging Bible Talk" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

  Tommy Shaw

  Sound, Band, Clubs

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• 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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