"From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree."

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Hugh Hammond Bennett

#Defense Quotes #Economic Quotes #Conservation Quotes

“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”
“It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.”
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
“Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book edited by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.”
“Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.”
“The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.”
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.”

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