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Jai Ganesh

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Building Quotes - II

Building Quotes - II

1. Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. - Ban Ki-moon

2. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. - Walt Disney

3. A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere. - Mel Gibson

4. My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation. - Sheikh Hasina

5. When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. - Jeff Bezos

6. Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

7. Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. - Barbara Bush

8. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world. - Mark Zuckerberg

9. It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up. - Steve Jobs

10. I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. - Lyndon B. Johnson

11. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. - David Rockefeller

12. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend. - George W. Bush.

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