Mortimer Zuckerman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Dream #Home #Reality
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Islands #Erosion #Wetlands
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Class #Upset #Kind
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Baby #Jobs #Moving
Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Dog #Serenity #Chocolate
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Mother #Nature #Cities
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Faith #Government #Two
Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Horse #Advice #Saddles
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Sex #Opposites #Practice
He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Thinking #Personality #Facts
Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Today #Population #April
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Unique #May #Today
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Government #Benefits #Pay
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Inspirational #Helping #Mice
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
-- Mortimer Zuckerman

#Home #Long #Demand

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