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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.

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Quotes by Ross Levinsohn

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.

Quotes by Roshni Nadar

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Quotes by Ronald Biggs

I'm building a large company.

Quotes by Roger Wang

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Quotes by Rod Taylor

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Quotes by Robert Venturi

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

Quotes by Robert Moog

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Quotes by Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Quotes by Robert Moog

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Quotes by Robert M. Gates

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our...

Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

Quotes by Robert Jeffress

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

Quotes by Robert Herjavec

We all know that a church is not a building.

Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.

Quotes by Robert Green

I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building.

Quotes by Robert A. Schuller

I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear a uniqueness in the author's voice.

Quotes by Rob Thurman

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

Quotes by Rick Tumlinson

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

Quotes by Rick Perry

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.