Building From Scratch Quotes

#1. A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

Nicholas Negroponte

#3. When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life.

Geoff Capes

#4. I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

Anthony Pratt

#5. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

Barack Obama

#6. The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

Karin Slaughter

#8. Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

C. Everett Koop

#9. Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

Richard Branson