“The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.” MeanPersonsUsePurposeForceProduceMachinesImprovementInventionForces Of Nature Author:Friedrich List
“There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.” NeedsKindHas BeensCountryAbilitySpaceTalentProduceImprovementOur CountryInitiative Author:John W. Thompson
“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.” PeopleWayNeedsYearsKindPlayProblemEarthRolesImpossibleProduceResourcesAccountsBillionsImprovementBest WayTechnologicalOutlinesRenewable Resources Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.” WantProduceTradeImprovementPoeticBuriedVeins Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc
“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.” IfsShouldQualityOur LivesPolicyProduceToolsUltimateFruitImprovementTargetImprovingPublic Policy Author:Jose Angel Gurria
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.” TodayEvilRaceMillionsRichWiseSeaMankindProduceSeriousThousandHundredDollarsCharityObstaclesImprovementNineCuresFiftyThrownBeing WiseUnworthy Author:Andrew Carnegie