Poorer Quotations

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.

There is a real difference in mentality. Consumers from poorer European countries are more cautious and tend to save more and borrow less.

The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.

Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

But the reality is H5N1 activity in a certain place does not mean that we will see a pandemic start there. It could start anywhere. And as always, poorer nations are more vulnerable to disease than wealthier ones.

But as he walks away he can be proud that many people all around the world are sad to see him go - cricket will be poorer without him.

China's investment demand is based on excessive optimism about the future. India depends on capital inflow to fund its consumption-led growth, like a poorer version of the U.S.

We're only growing the system now. Unless we fix a few things, we'll probably continue to have poorer and poorer performances as the years go by.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: and go sparing - One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look t

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.

Our child is being raised as a proxy, ... but we hope some day to get the proxy back through negotiations. And in public life, the longer you're in, the poorer you are.

Our performance is about as bad as it was then. Unless we fix a few things, we're probably going to continue to have poorer and poorer performance.

Long term care drives the Medicaid portion of the budget. Every dollar we put up gets another dollar from the federal government. But, since we are an affluent state we don't get as many federal dollars as poorer states.

We're used to this. The people that it really affects the most are the poorer folks that maybe are renting and might not have the means and transportation to get their possessions moved to higher ground in time. They lose everything.

Usually the poorer yield zones are hill tops, but can be low areas that drown out. We have had times when the zones did not make any sense.

When you send poorer people into the store for groceries, are they more likely to buy the lower-cost food that's pleasing to the child, or the healthier foods that are more expensive?

We kind of felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while. But it was a great second half for us. We were much more aggressive defensively and had at least 25 points off turnovers. It was a quality win against a team playing as well as anyone in the league right now.

There are 5 billion people in the world in countries that are poorer than Mexico.

Family ambivalence inherent in migration is associated with poorer mental health among Latino men. We found that the anxiety can be exacerbated when they are unable to call relatives in Mexico frequently.

We did a much better job in the second half of getting aggressive. We were a little fatigued or distracted in the first half, there's no doubt. We felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while.

Every dollar governors are forced to cut out of our budgets is a dollar that's not going into the economy. . . . Every job that must be cut is another statistic in already escalating unemployment figures. . . . Every person who loses the support and services on which they rely for their livelihood and security leaves us poorer as a people and as a nation.

Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses, you pray to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling yourself that you are poorer than others, that you are spiritually underdeveloped perhaps, and so on. I have no place in My heart for such distinctions and differences.

Dr Edwards has been the catalyst for key conservation milestones in WA. If not for Dr Edwards's tenacity, the nature of WA would be worse off and our state a poorer place to live.

European ministers again agree that it's not a question of lowering prices by adjusting excise duties but probably of helping poorer families with compensation measures,

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Normally we'd applaud their going around Forest Preserve with utility lines, but after looking at the damage this would cause ecologically, it seems like the poorer choice.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The less he knows, the more stupid he is. The more stupid, the easier he can be governed! The easier to govern, the better he may be exploited. The more exploited, the poorer he gets. The poorer he gets, the richer and mightier the domineering classes get, the more riches and power they amass, the heavier their yoke upon the neck of the people.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

They still have punch cards in the poorer sections of Florida, while there was electronic voting in the more wealthy areas,

It's a concrete demonstration of the health care crisis in our country. Everybody's getting poorer because of health care.

It may help them go to sleep but the quality is much poorer than it would have been. As the alcohol breaks down in the system it causes arousals - they may not wake up but the depth is not the same.

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

The aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina illustrated to me that the poor and destitute Americans on the margins of our society looked poorer than people in Third World countries, and that was amazing to me. It's just a sad illustration of the economic strata of American life.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not chosen to be a Philadelphian,

The landscape of this city would have been measurably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not chosen to be a Philadelphian,

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

I have not made up my mind. You are likely to get higher scores if you perform more difficult jumps. But if you don' t perform clean executions you may even get poorer results.

If you don't change these differences, you're going to have a poorer and less competitive state. Whatever the source of the Hispanic population is, they are clearly the future force of the Texas population.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

If you go down to New Orleans in the poorer places, you still see things that are unimaginable. We were so lucky in Baton Rouge. We gave up our time, our homes, to help.

In the senior population, there's a direct correlation, ... The poorer you are, the sicker you are.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

Canada is rich, so would be a much-needed net contributor to the European budget at a time when the EU has been taking in lots of poorer states.

High-speed broadband access is the electricity of the 21st century, yet many rural and poorer urban communities are being left off the grid. The innovators and organizers at the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks are blazing the trail to make broadband affordable and available to everyone.

He really had one of his poorer games tonight. He wasn't shooting well.

The good B2B stocks are dizzyingly expensive, but we would rather pay up for them than look for cheap stocks of poorer companies.

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.