"The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"

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Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.469, Cosimo, Inc.

Alfred Marshall

#Valuable Quotes #Humans Quotes

“A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!”

Source : Larry Crabb (2009). “The Marriage Builder: A Blueprint for Couples and Counselors”, p.32, Harper Collins
“It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.”
“Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.”
“Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.”
“The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.”
“The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.”
“I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis on George Clooney Split: 'Break-ups Are a Personal Failure'". Chi Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. September 08, 2011.
“Don't let anybody take your manhood.”

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