“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.” GivingIdeasGovernmentPurposeStrongSocialPrinciplesEconomicProductsTaxesDegreesStandardsLaborWeakEnglandConsumersCommunistSocialistTaxpayersIndustriousBasic PrinciplesCannibalismFrugal Author:Dan Smoot
“Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.” PeopleWellsIdeasMillionsModernFiguresDesignMaterialsProductsDependsHigherStandardsContraryWell BeingStationsFewerLocationMundaneSupermarketsStandards Of LivingGasolineHigher StandardsIncorporation Author:Thomas Sowell
“There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.” UseMillionsProductsStandardsProgramVulnerableAgencyInsecureDefaultNsaEncryptionSnooping Author:Edward Snowden
“Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.” PeopleIfsHomeCertainAttitudeQualitySeeingProductsStandardsUniformsJurisdiction Book:Please Understand Me 2 Source: Please Understand Me 2
“The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.” UseModernProductsStandardsMachinesAimPrimariesWarfareStandards Of LivingModern Warfare Book:George Orwell's 1984 Source: George Orwell's 1984
“Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.” WellsSchoolNamesParentKnownTeacherEffectsSeriousProductsStandardsPolicePunishmentViolentApathySpouseWell KnownWithdrawalSullenVandalismTruancy Author:B. F. Skinner
“If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.” IfsMenYearsLawIndividualCommonProductsBenefitsStandardsYears AgoRaisedProfitIncomeCorporationsEnterpriseMinoritiesQuantityConsumptionTaxationInheritanceStandards Of LivingCommon ManNew ProductsAmerican Law Author:Ludwig von Mises
“It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.” RememberEasyGrowing UpFocusGrowingProductsIndustryComputerStandardsHeavyHatedEmsIbmGreat SalesMainframe Author:Bill Gates
“It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.” WayGivingEndsEnoughSituationSuccessfulProductsStandardsPerformancesEdgesYieldGood EnoughAcceptableIntegrationComponentsNot Good Enough Author:Clayton Christensen
“My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.” IfsFeelsMy OwnHonestProductsStandardsCompromise Author:Neill Blomkamp
“Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.” YearsHeartReasonJoySufferingTurnsCausesSimpleAnimalEnvironmentSadnessProductsDiseaseEatingStandardsAbuseCancerFatsMeatDietsFearfulRecipesVeganismNot HappyDiabetesHumiliatingDairyHeart DiseaseEating MeatAmerican DietDairy Products Author:Sharon Gannon
“Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.” WorldLooksHeartCountryAnimalProductsDiseaseStandardsAspectThirdsConsumptionThird WorldStandards Of LivingHeart DiseaseThird World Countries Author:William McNamara
“I'm a firm believer in quality > quantity, and I think it's important to have high standards in any product creation product.” ThinkingImportantQualityCreationProductsStandardsBelieverFirmQuantityHigh Standards Author:Joey Sturgis
“It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.” PeopleIfsWorldHappensBuildingProductsStandardsWinnerReasoningDescriptionImproving Author:Cathy O'Neil
“The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.” PeopleNeedsGivingRunningLinesWalksRaceCompanyBreakGroupsProductsFineStandardsGenderMinoritiesLecturesOpen MindedFine LinesJust SayingDouble StandardPrismsMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.” IfsFeelsDifferentEndsHandsRememberWhiteProductsEatingStandardsWineVariousCrispsFlavourSippingBogsWhite Wine Author:Suhayl Saadi