System That Works Quotes

#1. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.

Laura Vanderkam

#2. Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

Donald Trump

#3. The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

Danny Meyer

#4. We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

Carly Fiorina

#5. A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another ... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

Georges St-Pierre

#6. The key to building a successful and solid business is to find a system that works for you and is repeatable.

K Moehr

#7. You're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Marco Rubio

#8. Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

Ron Wyden

#10. We have a system that works fabulously well for products. But the one we have for people stinks. This is the lesson we've got to learn - or the human future on this planet is going to be a very bleak one indeed.

Daniel Quinn

#11. What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

Marc Veasey

#12. On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

K. Eric Drexler

#13. The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Kevin Kelly

#14. We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

Marco Rubio

#15. If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Michael Dell

#16. Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

Hugh McCutcheon

#17. Capitalism is a system that works extremely well for someone who is highly motivated and very energetic, but it is not a great system for someone who is not interested in working hard or for someone who feels no need to contribute to the economic well-being of their community.

Ben Carson

#18. The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

John Collison

#19. I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

Dax Shepard

#20. I think there's an ability to make an immigration system that works.

Kevin McCarthy

#21. Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy ... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.

Vaclav Havel

#22. I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

J. R. Simplot

#23. When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

Ben Silbermann

#24. I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

Dan Webster

#25. The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

Michelle Rodriguez

#26. When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.

Charles Fort

#27. When you explain to people how this country [US] works, because we have a presidential single member district system there is no way to start a third party without injuring your friends that is if you start a liberal party you are going to elect conservatives and vice versa.

William Domhoff

#28. Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing ... [and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

Marilyn Waring

#29. We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

James Hillman

#30. I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

Dr. Brian Goldman

#32. It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

Bernie Sanders

#33. The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

Ted Cruz

#34. the thing that will really change the world is not millions of people coming together in acts of retaliation against a corrupt system, but the individuals who learn to liberate themselves from the conditioning of their culture. A system no longer works if we choose to stop participating in it.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#35. I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

Ilana Glazer

#36. Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

Adam Levine

#37. "The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.

Robert Jeffress

#38. A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.

W. Edwards Deming

#39. What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Sigmar Gabriel

#40. I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

Noam Chomsky

#41. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

Samuel Johnson

#42. What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.

Oren Moverman

#43. The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Theo Jansen

#44. I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

Katharine Graham

#45. I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

Louis Menand

#46. (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section)
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

#47. The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts.

Dave Barry

#48. People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.

Jan Koum

#49. You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

Lawrence Taylor

#50. I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

Kool Moe Dee

#51. I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Renny Harlin

#52. Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

Dan Webster

#53. As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

James Bovard

#54. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Praveen Kumar

#56. In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#57. I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

Amaury Nolasco

#58. Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Eric Ries

#59. Well, I know how the system works. I know that there's something called the MELD system, which is nationwide. There are zones as far as evaluation of need for liver transplants.

Pat Summerall

#60. I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

Mitt Romney

#61. I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

Paddy Considine

#62. Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Shaffi Mather

#63. What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Hugh Masekela

#64. I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

Margaret Walker

#65. Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Margaret Chan

#66. The system metaphor is a story that everyone
customers, programmers, and managers
can tell about how the system works.

Kent Beck

#67. We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school ... We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

Erik Satie

#68. A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

#69. I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Larry Niven

#70. I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then you should try to get a studio budget so that you can use all of the tools they have to get what you want. If it doesn't then you look elsewhere, or make it yourself.

Andrew Neel

#71. But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

John Bruton

#72. Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Al Gore

#73. Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Christopher Priest

#74. There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

Ben Shapiro

#75. When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

Tim Story

#76. If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Irwin Redlener

#77. I couldn't figure out how the system worked. And maybe that was the point. If you aren't sure how it works, it's a lot harder to game it.

Stacey Kade

#78. The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

Peter Singer

#79. A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.

Noah Feldman

#80. The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

Gregory David Roberts

#81. We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

Iain Duncan Smith