80 Quota Quotes
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Famous Quota Quotes
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in. — Ronald Reagan
The alternative approach is to fix a hard upper limit on the number of things that you allow yourself to work on at any given time. — Oliver Burkeman
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out. — Tony Blair
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? — Sojourner Truth
So therefore this is scarcity that humans can’t f*** around with. — Raoul Pal
We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
we are running out of time for dealing with this — Eric Illsley
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. — Thomas Malthus
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. — Euripides
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. — Michael Porter
We are running out of time — Barack Obama
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough. — Dick Gregory
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. — Sally Miller Gearhart
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. — Charles M. Schwab
Short Quota Quotes
- We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken
- I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota. — Reed Morano
- Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming
- Value the relationship more than making your quota. — Sayings
- Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. — W. Edwards Deming
- Hiring quotas reduce efficiency. — James Cook
- Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. — James Cook
- If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota. — Zig Ziglar
- Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown. — Pietro Aretino
Quotable Quotes
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. — Ray Liotta
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. — Louis Menand
What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) — Albert Einstein
If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable. — Roger Ailes
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. — Robertson Davies
It's better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature. — Gordon S. Wood
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. — Louis Menand
People Writing About Quota
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 W. Edwards Deming |
245 | 3622 |
 James Cook |
195 | 742 |
 Ronald Reagan |
1059 | 19098 |
 Oliver Burkeman |
103 | 67 |
 Tony Blair |
303 | 776 |
 Sojourner Truth |
44 | 5383 |
More Quota Quotes
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
I aim for a daily target of music and a weekly quota of comedy, workouts, and other feel-good activities. — Mo Gawdat
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? — Jon Stewart
As a businessman, I’ve learned that we can improve only on that which we measure. So set yourself a fun quota. I do! — Mo Gawdat
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity. — Walter Block
Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat. — Marcus Aurelius
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. — John W. Gardner
Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota. — Denzel Washington
The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back? — Martin Schulz
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision. — Angela Ahrendts
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. — John Dramani Mahama
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom. — Benjamin Cardozo
It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises . — Kalakaua
It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later. — Fiona Apple
I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration. — Pam Muñoz Ryan
I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion. — Samuel Alito
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again. — Ronald Reagan
I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him. — Gena Showalter
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear? — Anthony Marra
If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon — James Scott Bell
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. — Gunther Grass
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? — Adam Schiff
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. — Gunter Grass
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. — Marvin Olasky
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government. — Alphonso Jackson
Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster. — Laura Bates
There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets. — Marsha Norman
What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher. — Ludwig von Mises
I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity? — Ludwig von Mises
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business. — James Madison
I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call. — Drake
Nobody is going to buy from you because you have quota to meet. They are going to buy from you because they see the value in doing so. — Bob Burg
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. — Anne Carson
It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people. — Peter Oliver
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