Trades Quotes - page 3

Motion study is the science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from using unnecessary, ill-directed, and inefficient motions. The aim of motion study is to find and perpetuate the scheme of least waste methods of labor. By its use we have revolutionized several of the trades. There is probably no art or trade that cannot have its output doubled by the application of the principles of motion study. (Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.)
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever. View quote
Rosario Dawson
I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted. View quote
Cynthia Nixon
I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel. View quote
Robert Kirkman
3051. Jack of all Trades is of no Trade. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
China trades with your country. View quote
Qianlong Emperor
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. View quote
Andrew Lo
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job. View quote
Arthur Blank
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management. View quote
David Stern
I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents. View quote
Denis O'Hare
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. (Earl Weaver)
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. View quote
Florence Kelley
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. View quote
Florence Kelley
We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. View quote
Isaiah Thomas
I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.' View quote
Nicole Ari Parker
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Practically the whole of the engineering establishments of this country were controlled by the State. He had seen resolutions passed by the Trades Congress about the nationalization of industry, but the Government had done it. View quote
David Lloyd George
It is a curious fact, that the true has always been more opposed at the outset than the false; the circulation of the blood and vaccination nearly lost their discoverers credit and practice, while some vender of quack medicines makes a rapid fortune. This may perhaps be accounted for, simply, that the impostor addresses the multitude, while the scientific discoverer appeals to his brethren in knowledge, all of whom are inclined to deny, what, if admitted, must show, that a great part of their own research and acquirement has been in vain; still he who trades on human credulity will have a good stock on hand, especially when the lure held forth is that of gain. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. (Vince Cable)
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. View quote
Og Mandino
Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades. View quote
Liam Hemsworth
It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless. View quote
George Orwell
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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