“Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.” WayFeelsPowerfulFrontsCostComputerBurnoutTime SpentBurn Out Author:Richard Louv
“The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.” PeopleDoeUsePoorPowerfulTroubleMissingCostBenefitsBlameScaryEmployeeContractsFactoriesPowerlessPoor People Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.” HumansPowerfulSituationFamilyGreaterSceneCostPassionateIntimateHuman Experience Author:Charlene Weir
“Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.” PowerfulCostPerformancesSpeedDividends Author:Stephen Covey
“We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they're going to pay and the way they're going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That's what it's going to cost. It's going to be a powerful wall. It's going to cost $10 billion.” WayYearsReasonPowerfulPayWallCostTradeBillionsMexicoBobDeficit Author:Donald Trump
“When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn't buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole lot more.” IfsWorldWantLooksReasonWholeLawStuffPowerfulCompanyTrumpCostTradeMost PowerfulAmazon Author:Stephanie Ruhle
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.” ThinkingWritingPowerfulEducationCostConsciousInspiring Writing Book:Locked rooms and open doors Source: Locked rooms and open doors
“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.” MeanDoeNamesPowerfulResponsibilityRichCostUniversalEmpoweringProtestGlobalizationEnrichingFreedom And Responsibility Author:Nelson Mandela
“Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.” IfsDonePowerfulWonderfulEasierCostComputerCreatingLowsConsumersNew ThingsWonderful ThingsCheaperTransactionsCreating New Things Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.” PowerfulNumbersTechnologyCostLowsInnovationConsumersTechnologicalNew TechnologyLarge NumbersComputing Author:James Surowiecki
“The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.” LooksEndsPlayGamesEasyAbilityPowerfulCostSixVideoFeaturesStreamsDigitalConsoleNavigateXboxMp3 Author:James Surowiecki
“Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?” WayLongBodyPowerfulEvolutionHealthyCostRateIllnessThanksClimbsFrighteningInfectionHealthy Life Author:David Suzuki
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.” HumansHas BeensSeemsPoliticsPowerfulNovelStudyCostLibertarianContemporaryArroganceAssumptionTestedAntidoteEarth DayHumblingPostmodernismPlausibleGuiseConstructivism Book:The Things that are Not Caesar's Source: The Things that are Not Caesar's
“The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.” ThinkingMenSpiritPowerfulRolesCostArgumentTasksAssumingThinkerConventionsPrivilegedLonerPlausiblePower Of One Author:Bryce Courtenay