“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.” MeanEndsTurnsGoalWealthEconomyFashionIndustryBuiltMachinesProductionsScalesGoodsLeisureDevotedConsumptionReplacedExpansionOutputObsolescence Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.” WarWholeFactsStrongGoalMoralClearConditionsVictoryBattleEqualStandardsScalesDevotionTroopsBannerLarge ScaleStrong WillClear Goals Author:Georgy Zhukov
“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.” IfsWorldLooksWarCountryTodaySufferingGoalAnswersPovertyDegreesEvidenceCapitalismHatredBlindProsperityScalesChecksPausesPremisesMagnitudeUnspeakable Author:Ayn Rand
“The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people from the hydrologic cycle, there is enough on a global scale to support current and anticipated populations on a sustainable basis... Three essential goals are dependable and safe supplies for people, protection and management of the environmental systems through which water moves, and efficient water use. Meeting these goals will require that fresh water not continue to be treated as a free good or as the principal means for disposing of human and industrial wastes.” PeopleHumansMeanEnoughUseMovingThreeGoalWaterSupportSafeEssentialsWasteNewsBasesManagementMeetingsEnvironmentalPopulationCurrentsProtectionScalesTreatedCyclesEfficientPrincipalVolumeGood NewsSuppliesAccountingUsing MeDependableFresh Water Author:Gilbert F. White
“Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.” ShouldGoalCompanyTeamScales Author:Sam Altman