Resource Utilization Quotes

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Own nothing, control everything.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

No nation has ever aggressively and intensely exploited national resources over such a great area as has the United States.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.

A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

The United States is like a giant steam generator. Once the fire has been lighted under it, there is no limit to the amount of power it can generate.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.

We nor our bailiffs will take another man’s wood for Our castles or any other purpose without the owner’s consent.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet. We are working to supply the kinds of materials that are necessary for the lives we've built for ourselves.

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

All is fish that comth to net.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.