#invested

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. ↗

— Barack Obama

#along #american #bridges #build #business

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#any #because #bellows #between #capital

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about. ↗

— Halle Berry

#audience #doing #dumb #even #get

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#be real #become #characters #identify #invested

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#challenging #extremely #four #i #i can

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. ↗

— Esther Williams

#buying #ended #gas #gas station #had

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#invested #market #since #stock #stock market

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#billion #city #country #department #dollars

I invested all my money in debt. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#i #invested #money

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#come #competition #customers #end #endure