Quotes About Resources

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

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.