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“The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.”

Whole Individual Company Industry Unnecessary Requirements Beneficial Elimination Collateral

Author:Mike McGavick

“Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.”

Government Individual Liberty Industry Property Rewards Privilege Conclusion Entitled Provision Servitude Liberty And Equality

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.”

People Suffering Individual Effort Sacrifice Achieve Industry

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.”

Individual Energy Progress Industry Individuality Vices Selfish Selfishness Decay Idleness Uprightness

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

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Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.”

Should Motivational Suffering Individual Company Industry Independent Sake Employee Stability Dogma Competence Continuity

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.”

Men May Doe Individual Wish Deals Industry Genius Comfort Horse Absolutes Intelligent Patient Convinced Observation Certainty Steady Despise Absolute Certainty

Author:Walter Lippmann

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner