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"You didn't build that" is a phrase from a 2012 election campaign speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia. In the speech, Obama said: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.
Quote number 1, is one of my favorite Fool quotes of all. It's from Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan courtier, soldier and poet, who died young. At the age of 31, he got hit by a bullet in the ...
"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a metaphor about the power of innovation. It originated, in a somewhat different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The epigram as known today, which specifies "mousetrap", probably also originated with Emerson, although the evidence for this is indirect.
While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, "If you build it, he will come." and sees a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield and the ghost of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson standing in the middle. Annie agrees to uproot part of their field to build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.
Here's why $100,000 is a magic financial milestone. 'You gotta do it': the late Charlie Munger once said your first $100K is the toughest to earn — but most crucial for building wealth.
The quote is most often attributed to Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival, Robert Hooke. Isaac Newton remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke written in 5 February 1675 and published in 1855: What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical ...
"Rome wasn't built in a day" is an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. It is the usual English translation of a medieval French phrase, Rome ne fu[t] pas faite toute en un jour, from the collection Li Proverbe au Vilain, published around 1190. [1]
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