George Gilder Quotes
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
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Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
