When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house. John Schnatter Read Quote
There’s always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There’s also those who say, ‘I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.’ They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress. John Sulston Read Quote
I’ve seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I’m convinced that there’s nowhere I’d be happier, there’s nowhere I’m missing out on because I’m in N.Y. Garth Ennis Read Quote
For years, I felt like I was just whacking at the ball, trying to see how far I could hit it, especially with the driver. Whatever the coach I was working with at the time told me to do, I would just go along with it. Gary Woodland Read Quote
I always try to say, ‘If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.’ Jaime Lerner Read Quote
I’m happy we’re about to start inviting people into the thing we’ve been working on!! It’s called Pinwheel, and it’s a way to find and leave notes all around the world. Caterina Fake Read Quote
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people – that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society. William T. Vollmann Read Quote
I didn’t make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream. Pruitt Taylor Vince Read Quote
