#nit

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#crisis #giving #great #had #history

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american people #beyond #cannot #establish #explicitly

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". ↗

— Alan Perlis

#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#care #challenge #classical #classical music #funds

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #handle #humanity #i #i can

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#business #gears #humanity #i #i think

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#blessed #certainly #i #opportunity #very