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Building Quotes

On the work of making something last.

These lines treat building as deliberate effort, whether it's teachers shaping a classroom culture to mirror an organization's, or someone who has spent a career building companies from nothing. Related: Foundation.

One great building does not make a great city.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

Quotes by Tamilisai Soundararajan

Networking technology is at the heart of the Internet, connecting devices and local networks with the global public Internet. Planning, designing, building, managing, and supporting IP networks all require dedicated networking skills.

Quotes by Tae Yoo

Banks are really bad when it comes to building consumer-centred products.

Quotes by Taavet Hinrikus

The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.

Quotes by Sukarno

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Quotes by Steven Weber

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Quotes by Steven Gerrard

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

Quotes by Steve Wozniak

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Quotes by Steve Tisch

The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.

Quotes by Steve Ells

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

Quotes by Steve Bannon

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Quotes by Steve Blank

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.

Quotes by Steve Blank

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to...

Quotes by Steve Aoki

The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending...

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

Quotes by Stana Katic

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

Quotes by Sonny Landham

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Quotes by Silvan Shalom

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about building culture in a classroom versus an organization?
Yes: "The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization." Growth quotes covers related themes of developing something over time.
Is there a real political quote about settlements and Israel?
Yes - one real, genuinely controversial quote states: "As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli." This is presented here strictly as that speaker's own stated opinion on a real geopolitical issue, not a fact or position this page endorses.
Is there a quote about working hard to build companies?
Yes: "I busted my butt all my life building companies." Foundation quotes has more on the effort behind building something from scratch.
Is there a short quote preferring building over managing?
Yes: "I enjoy building more than managing." It's a brief statement about a preference for creating rather than overseeing.
Where can I find more quotes about progress or structure?
Try Progress quotes or Structure quotes for related themes.

One touches geopolitics directly, tying continued settlement building to how a country is viewed abroad. See also Growth and Progress.