A Quote by Michael Korda

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Michael Korda

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Chauvinism Compensation Male Maximum Method Minimum Shrewd Work

Quote Author

Michael Korda
English - Novelist
Born: October 8, 1933

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Nido R Qubein

Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

Leonhard Euler

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

Maurice Bejart

We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

Al Gore

Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

Frederick Lenz

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Joseph Pilates

A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.

Lydia Millet

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

George Soros

You need minimum color for maximum effect.

Jay Maisel

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Bruce Lee

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

Anohni

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.