Shipping Quotes

• It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

  Bert Murray

  Used, Inevitable, Taxes

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• Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Important, Products, Features

  "The Duct Tape Programmer" by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

  Craig Ferguson

  Christmas, Blow, Numbers

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• My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Winning, Advice

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• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  Freya Stark

  Eye, Impact, Blue

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• I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

  Andy Rooney

  People, Doe, Cost

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• As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Peace, Oil, Gold

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• My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

  Samuel West

  Ambition, Forecasts

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• It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

  Andrew Natsios

  People, Cost, Four

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• It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Morning, Thinking, House

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• Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

  Daniel Goleman

  Air, Sea, Environmental

  "Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything". Book by Daniel Goleman, 2009.

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• I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

  Paul Allen

  Ebola, People, Towns

  "Paul Allen to Give $100 Million to Tackle Ebola Crisis" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

  Robert Breault

  Imagination, Society, Doe

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• There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Internet, Celebrate

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• I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.

  Sara Blakely

  Two, Tvs, Week

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• I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Son, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

  John Taylor

  Ocean, Lakes, Assumption

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• If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Definitions

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.195, Penguin

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• I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down.

  Josh Smith

  Hate, Drinking, Espresso

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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• You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.

  Black Hawk

  War, Hero, Fighting

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• I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

  Vance Gilbert

  People, Barnacles, Bigs

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Writing, Practice

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• Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

  Terry Matthews

  Mistake, Cutting, Winter

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