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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
Best
,
Possible
,
Quality
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus
Children
,
Social
,
Needs
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
Time
,
Business
,
Mind
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Find
,
Hatred
,
Culture
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
Best
,
Victory
,
Another
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent
Control
,
America
,
Gun
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem
Women
,
Men
,
Emotional
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Faith
,
Good
,
Courage
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
Fear
,
Human
,
Mad
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard
Government
,
Feeling
,
Realize
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
Humor
,
Wit
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
Peace
,
Justice
,
Else
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
Truth
,
Today
,
Reality
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson
Humor
,
Yourself
,
Thought
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
John Elway
Both
,
Appreciate
,
Highest
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel
Impossible
,
Around
,
Point
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Beautiful
,
Present
,
London
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
Education
,
Punishment
,
Rewards
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
Ang Lee
Life
,
Money
,
Try
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
Wish
,
Reach
,
Begin
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser
Work
,
Help
,
Real
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Fiona Apple
Best
,
Times
,
Highest
Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.
Demi Moore
Person
,
Through
,
Exciting
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
Imelda Marcos
Time
,
Real
,
Understand
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
Richard J. Daley
Newspaper
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.
Stephen Harper
Government
,
Forget
,
Goal
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
John Sununu
Good
,
Best
,
Give
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
Jim DeMint
Happens
,
Common
,
Senate
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
Eric Davis
Time
,
Everything
,
Career
Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.
David Davis
Here
,
Point
,
Since
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