Quotes by Principles It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity. Walter Wriston armyprinciplesmen The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately. Wang Jianlin employeecommandprinciples I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce. Wangari Maathai principleslongamerica Occasionally, a man must rise above principles. Warren Buffett principlesrise-abovemen [This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence. Warren Farrell defenseviolenceprinciples There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. Washington Irving languageprincipleswriting One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves. Watts Humphrey principlesusebelieve Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living. Watchman Nee principleschristianworld The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus. Watchman Nee principleschristianjesus The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. Washington Irving principleswarenemy But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did Warren Buffett deploymenteventsprinciples In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse. Warren Buffett principlesendspeople When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. Wayne LaPierre graffiticonstitutionprinciples When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing. Warren Buffett investingprinciplesbridges If principles can become dated, they're not principles. Warren Buffett generosityprincipleslife There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence. Wendell Phillips wallprinciplesmen An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. Wendell Berry principlespeoplecommitment The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. Wendell Berry agriculturegeniusprinciples One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce. Wayne Dyer importantprinciplesideas Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. Wendell Berry principlessaketoday«107108109110111112113114115116117»
