The market is a powerful mechanism for the distribution of resources.

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor … If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I’ll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won’t be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It’s purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest

I just want to give back and kind of be a resource for younger generations.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you’re smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you’re good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you’re doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified

Between the demand to be clear and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

English clubs should not be pleased to go to places like Barcelona and get away without a thrashing. They should be able to compete. They have the resources.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the “bourgeois” under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right – but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge.

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today’s society.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Realizing that we cannot live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it’s an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you’re going to run into the reality, which is that that isn’t true.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

“For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.