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Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
- Precious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020