A Quote by Thorstein Veblen

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

Thorstein Veblen

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Thorstein Veblen
American - Economist
July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

Carroll Quigley

The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay rate - they pay increases or pay freeze for pay increases for members of Congress. They've had a pay freeze since 2009, but most civil servants will see a small pay bump in 2016 thanks to a separate order from President Obama.

Susan Davis

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Arthur Bloch

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

Evan Esar

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

Henry Blackaby

Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

J. C. Ryle

If you can afford to eat yourself fat, you can afford to pay to go to WeightWatchers if you think that is the answer.

Katie Hopkins

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Napoleon Hill

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

Eminem

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

William Safire

Servants honor their master by their service.

Franz Grillparzer

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

Thomas Carlyle

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Michele Bachmann

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

Raymond Williams

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