Resources Quotes
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According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.
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We're kind of scurrying around. It's very fluid. Certainly this has gotten all of the nursing home profession's attention after Katrina, and so everybody's making plans to evacuate. But there are a lot of difficulties on having enough resources for transportation.
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I have seen them giving meals away, but aside from that, I have not seen them having a tremendous presence in giving out the resources they collected nationally, ... A lot of residents I have spoken to feel that, in a time of need, they didn't have their act together.
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Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
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The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.
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It's important for women to have each other's backs. I'd like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient.
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For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
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My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Browns successful.
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My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.
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Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
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If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don't have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.
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The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.
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My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
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As Americans we've gotta make sure that we begin to rebuild and get our military the resources they need to defend us.
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A good ERP is more than just good software. It involves an institutional commitment to connecting people, processes, and resources. This will be achieved by deploying sound data practice as part of a broader University-wide Web strategy.
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The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
