Quotes About Resources

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

How does one get help when they have no money~ or how does one get money when they have no help?

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

The French king had three times as many subjects, and also triple the resources; the Spanish king possessed six times as many subjects, and five times the revenue.

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Entrepreneurs, by definition, shift resources from areas of low productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. Of course, there is a risk they may not succeed. But if they are even moderately successful, the returns should be more than adequate to offset whatever risk there might be.

Entrepreneurs, by definition, shift resources from areas of low productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. Of

An organization, a social artifact, is very different from a biological organism. Yet it stands under the law that governs the structure and size of animals and plants: The surface goes up with the square of the radius, but the mass grows with the cube. The larger the animal becomes, the more resources have to be devoted to the mass and to the internal tasks, to circulation and information, to the nervous system, and so on.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a 'resource' until man finds a use for something in nature and thus endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits to what can be attained.