Quotes About Resources

'Tangerine' was less than half the budget of 'Starlet,' and 'Starlet' was already a microbudget film. A director always wants more time, and we had a limited amount of resources.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20 percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources; that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from the firm).

You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We're cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Though part of the puzzle is obviously capital budget allocations, most companies seem to have a much higher awareness of the rules by which capital and assets are allocated than they do about how skilled people should be spending their time.

Just because the resources are there doesn't mean that they should be spent.

extracted resources from cash-generating but low-growth arenas such

resources are directed by a governance mechanism that is separate from any given business unit.

access to assets, rather than ownership, provides flexibility and scalability without having to commit to a particular path

change how you run the assets that deliver expensive nonnegotiable attributes.

Preventing resources from being held hostage by the leaders of a particular advantage will become more standard as firms become aware of the dangers of a leader hanging on to an old advantage for too long.

National Security, in practice, must always fall short of the logically Empedoclean infinite regress it requires for perfect "security." In that gap between the ideal of "One Nation under surveillance with wire taps and urine tests for all," and the strictly limited real situation of finite resources and finite funding, there is ample encouragement for paranoias of all sorts to flourish, both among the citizens and among the police.

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.

The problem with a foreign policy driven foremost by Never Again! is that it ignores limits and the availability of resources. World War II had the secondary, moral effect of saving what was left of European Jewry. Its primary goal and effect was to restore the European and Asian balance of power in a manner tolerable to the United States—something that the Nazis and the Japanese fascists had overturned.

Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.

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Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. She's a sweet girl, but poor. Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.