Quotes About Resources

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.

T]he people of plenty were a people of waste.

The idea of a joint stock company was one of Tudor England's most brilliant and revolutionary innovations. The spark of the idea sprang from the flint of the medieval craft guilds, where merchants and manufacturers could pool their resources to undertake ventures none could afford to make individually.

We cannot now stir a step in our life without capital. We cannot build a school, a hospital, a church, or employ a missionary society, without capital, any more than we could build a palace or a factory without capital. We

Capital is force, human energy stored or accumulated, and

Many companies enter businesses planning to capture only a small percentage of the market. Such plans are not conservative; they are extremely dangerous. They are strategies for failure. The only good plans and the only good marketing programs are those aimed at dominance, backed by sufficient resources to achieve it, and executed with precision.

The primary function of financial capitalism is to efficiently funnel money from those with an excess of it to those who need it.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.