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Owen D. Young Quotes

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1874 - July 11, 1962

Topics

Business Opportunity Men World Earn

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Andrew Nikiforuk

You Kind Run Taxes Representation

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

People Book Think Look Books Most

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Father Know Way System Because

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

Journey Travel City Me Eye View

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Fear Heart You Wonder Head Shoot

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Believe Wish Readily

I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'

Together New York Small Comedy Doing

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

Christopher Lee

People Say Special Leave Forces

I'm not a political guy.

William H. McRaven

We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.

Susan L. Taylor

Women Live Sad Peace Effort Space

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Child Me Done Three Two Everything

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing.

I Can Sometimes Same Expect Move

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