Higher Quotes - Page 25

• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stronger, Velocity, Return

  "A sign outside Amazon's new Australian warehouse is a reminder of how Jeff Bezos crushes his rivals" by Tony Yoo, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 2, 2017.

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• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

  Linda Blair

  Dog, Religious, Animal

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• The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Order, March, Progressive

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.196, Penguin

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• If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, People, Ordinary

  "Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  John Boehner

  Energy, Cost, Debt

  "Interviews with Leader Boehner & Carol Browner". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2010.

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

  Boethius

  Love, Valentines Day, Law

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• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Teacher

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• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

  Phillips Brooks

  Real, Humility, Humble

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

  James Buchan

  Profit, Interest, Rate

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• No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

  Sandra Bullock

  Believe, World, Belief

  "Sandra Bullock Interviewed - 'Premonition'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 12, 2007.

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• Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

  Jeb Bush

  Groups, Generations, Language

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• You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mean, Two, Years

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Engineering, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  Vince Cable

  Mean, Government, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

  Anne Campbell

  Cost, Students, Loan

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• There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

  Anne Campbell

  Pages, Students, Education Funding

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• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

  Georg Cantor

  Art, Math, Values

  Doctoral thesis, 1867.

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• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  Duane G. Carey

  Powerful, Air, Flying

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  At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

  Robert Caro

  Ballet, Rest Of Your Life, Like You

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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• They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

  Michael N. Castle

  College, Ideas, Decision

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• But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Causes, Our Thoughts

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.

  Margaret Chan

  Government, Community, Ministry

  "Businesses urged to prepare for flu pandemic". Interview with Desley Coleman, www.abc.net.au. May 1, 2009.

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• I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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