Joel Salatin Quotes

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

I have done a lot of sci-fi, not out of choice, necessarily. It's just that I'm Canadian, and it's more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here.

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

A smaller and smaller area of land will be able to produce commodities of greater use or higher value

In many parts of Ireland the breed of cows is so wretched that feeding them involves a certain loss of land.

… whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.