Top 1200 Purchasing Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.

The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.

The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.