I don't necessarily think as a station owner we're looking at it as a return on investment. I hope for 50 years we never use the generator. If it happens, you know time will tell what my return on investment will be. If it takes 20 years, it takes 20 years.
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Related There is no "ROI" without the "I." JACEY R. FOLEY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll... WARREN BUFFETT It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you... WARREN BUFFETT Even if it takes 20 years to build out, the effect will still be the same, ... The overall mule deer... CARL ANDERSON It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens, NEIL ARMSTRONG If you're off by $100 a month on what you really spend, that oversight then is $1,200 every year. Th... DEE LEE You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one. ANDREW COBURN It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. EDDIE CANTOR If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the jour... JASPER FFORDE The return on investment is proven in tourism. Promotional spending must not be viewed as a cost; it... DANN LEWIS It took us 20 years to identify (the gene) I don't think it will take 20 years for the next one. ... CRAIG HANIS Taking short cuts are costly and not worth it. Doing it right takes longer, but the result is a soli... ANITA PLESSIS Taking short cuts are costly and not worth it. Doing it right takes longer, but the result is a soli... ANITA DU PLESSIS After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.' CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago... HELEN ARNTZEN Not only are we able to help our customers navigate the complexity of the marketplace. We are able t... ELLEN SIMINOFF It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who l... DARIO FO It will go on for some time but the indicator is if you are out of the show for five years and the n... BARRY EVANS It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ROBERT ANTON WILSON This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another ... STEVE JOBS Never, never had a wreck out here on this railroad as far as I know, and I've lived here for 20 year... GEORGE FRYE I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come ... LARRY ALEXANDER Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN They're just trying to buy us some time. They're coming in as private investors because I've told th... ERIN MCLAUGHLIN I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this. DAVID HOROWITZ I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ... CARLISLE FLOYD To sell county property it takes a two-thirds vote, ... I think to do a lease that is more than 5 ye... DAVID WATERS Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get take... DAPHNE GUINNESS Although the use of securitization as a financing tool has grown rapidly on a global basis for over ... MARIA XUEREB People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is d... LOIS LOWRY Richie is the person I most want to share a foxhole with. He is as loyal as they come. He watched my... JON BON JOVI If you look at future demand, we need to decide the next investment. Either it (will be) the same si... FUJIO NISHIDA It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is. JASON MRAZ We are seeing significant investment. The rate of addition to the capital stock is as great if not g... DARREN GIBBS If you own the land, you have a long-term investment with more security that the timber will be ther... DAVID LARSEN I don't know if it's 10 years or 20 years or 100 years, but the (region) will fill in and we'll have... GABE PARKER We believe that this will generate about $50 million in care for the uninsured alone. If we're able ... BOB GRECZYN "It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years." GERARD WAY It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years GERARD WAY If the city were to complete the current list of public improvements one at a time, it would take 10... CHRIS NORTON Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I [Series with political content tend to age badly, and Cowen and Lipman know a thing or two about dat... RON COWEN People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp... CLARENCE THOMAS We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 ... SYLVIA EARLE "It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years." GERARD WAY I hope it never happens, but if it becomes necessary, I only hope that the owner will give up the la... BRIGITTA MULLICAN The return on investment isn't good. It takes so much time, energy and resources, and there are othe... KATHY HOLDEFER If you can do it, why you won't do it??? If you have chance why you won't use it? DEYTH BANGER What this means is the suit will not go on for 20 years, WILLIAM KOVACIC It helps the company in lots of ways. We have a wonderful return on investment. DONNA KLEIN It is an industry with huge capital investment at the beginning. But the return will be stable and l... XU LIANG We're winning the war but we haven't won the war yet. I think whoever takes over this job in 20 year... JOHN F. KENNEDY The sale of conservation easements will give them a return on their investment. GEORGE PHILLIPS If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes... HAMMURABI In my dreams, I see 10 to 20 years from now, people who are 50 to 55 years old will get a cognitive ... ANNE FAGAN NIVEN Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the ... ANDY SERKIS It's going to be a little weird. There will be a lot of excitement because it's opening day, but at ... JASON WHITTLE It was a matter of whether we should spend more money on a project that never really provided any re... CRAIG SHER It is very important because we could have an idea of the magnitude of the problem. We might be sitt... CLAUDIO SOTO If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never ... ERIK BRUHN When I think it's my 20th year, really I guess looking up at the wall and looking at the pictures, I... JOYCE COMPTON This is a long-lead-time business; the investment horizon is five, 10 or 20 years. There's no switch... DANIEL YERGIN If a country were to build sufficient roads and railways over two to three years, it would solve the... FIRMINO MUCAVELE It was a successful sale. We are going to get a good return on our investment. GERRICK MONROE If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. DEYTH BANGER Business investment is disappointingly sluggish and the long-term effects on the U.K. economy are re... JOHN CRIDLAND I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years. ERIN O'CONNOR I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years. ERIN O'CONNOR It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN If you leave the investment aside, ... it will be a huge disappointment if we don't win anything. If... PETER KENYON I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's ho... JENNIFER MERCHANT What is the ROI (return on investment) of your suffering? LISA CYPERS KAMEN I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at t... BRIE LARSON If this trend continues over the next few years it will be very difficult for the sector. It could m... DRUMMOND BONE If this trend continues over the next few years it will be very difficult for the sector, ... It cou... DRUMMOND BONE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I mig... CHARLES POLLOCK If I were making the decision, I imagine Charlie would anchor for another five or six years, ... the... BOB ZELNICK Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-1... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great. DEMI LOVATO If it takes a long time to finish this case, it's not encouraging foreign investment in Korea. HANK MORRIS If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The cl... DANA HILL I think the most important thing that investors want to hear from the company is what it thinks is a... SEAN MCGOWAN If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will pr... GEORGE MOORE We are starting to see brain changes ahead of cognitive changes. We don't know yet if it predicts th... STERLING JOHNSON He may or may not get out someday. If he does it won't be for at least 20 years. RICHARD GALE Ideally ... we think that a further step here would be to phase out capital gains if investor are ho... DAVID GARDNER It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if you again return (to disobedience) We too wi... QURAN Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless. VICTORIA MORAN If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading. FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER It's going to be a great challenge. ... I may do this another 20 years and never get (another) shot ... GENE CHIZIK Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. RODNEY DANGERFIELD I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of year... MELANIE BROWN The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr?... JAMES LAVER
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ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac... ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u... ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ... ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo... ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo... ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions. ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common... ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring... ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can... ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i... ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e... ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.... ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se... ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ... ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'... ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi... ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar... ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ERIC HOFFER