Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.
