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- Nov 07, 2020
Building Quotes
On the work of making something last.
These lines treat building as deliberate effort, whether it's teachers shaping a classroom culture to mirror an organization's, or someone who has spent a career building companies from nothing. Related: Foundation.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Expenditure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.
- Nov 07, 2020
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm building a large company.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020