"When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around."

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Source : "Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED". www.theatlantic.com. May 17, 2012.

Nick Hanauer

#Jobs Quotes #Creating Quotes #Squirrels Quotes

“I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.”
“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”
“I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.”

Source : "Recent Reports Show Need for Congress to Act on Climate Change" by Rep. Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2014.
“If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.”
“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”
“We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?”
“If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.”

Source : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.
“A goal is the basic unit of life design.”

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