A Quote by Henry Taylor

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Henry Taylor

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Hope Advancement Fact Industry Spur

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Henry Taylor
English - Dramatist
October 18, 1800 - March 27, 1886

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

Leland Stanford

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

Yoshihide Suga

By becoming an MBE, I hope it helps raise the profile of our sector and what a thriving industry it is. I also hope it inspires others entrepreneurs in craft to believe, innovate and put our industry firmly on the map.

Sara Davies

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

There's a place for R&B in the U.K. industry - a huge market. I hope that 'Boo'd Up' can be a testament to the fact. Sometimes, it takes you moving outside the box to prove that it can be done.

Ella Mai

Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

Joseph Murphy

I warn the industry, they shouldn't underestimate the fact that Rob and Fab still have a lot of fans. And they should try to forgive us. Because we weren't bad for the music industry. We changed the music industry.

Rob Pilatus

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

Haile Selassie

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

Chuck Klosterman

The advancement of coal research will benefit Wyoming, its people, and the coal industry. I fully support it.

Matt Mead

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

Charles Caleb Colton

The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.

Dick Durbin

A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

Patrick M. Byrne

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.