James Cook Quotes

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness. ~ James Cook

Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze. ~ James Cook

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly. ~ James Cook

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer. ~ James Cook

You can't suffer over two things at once. ~ James Cook

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most. ~ James Cook

You can't think in sound bytes. ~ James Cook

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope. ~ James Cook

Gasahol is socialism's fuel. ~ James Cook

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners. ~ James Cook

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal. ~ James Cook

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency. ~ James Cook

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. ~ James Cook

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. ~ James Cook

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself. ~ James Cook

Knaves will come and knaves will go. ~ James Cook

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. ~ James Cook

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. ~ James Cook

The government is worst which governs most. ~ James Cook

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck. ~ James Cook

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit. ~ James Cook

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient. ~ James Cook

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn. ~ James Cook

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit. ~ James Cook

Better to build orphanages than prisons. ~ James Cook

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own. ~ James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business. ~ James Cook

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~ James Cook

People rarely use advice. ~ James Cook

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. ~ James Cook

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't. ~ James Cook

Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them. ~ James Cook

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy. ~ James Cook

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist. ~ James Cook

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money. ~ James Cook

No resource will flourish if managed by government. ~ James Cook

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it. ~ James Cook

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love. ~ James Cook

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God. ~ James Cook

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. ~ James Cook

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. ~ James Cook

The government endangers us with our own money. ~ James Cook

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn. ~ James Cook

Never underestimate the incompetence of government. ~ James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment. ~ James Cook

We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others. ~ James Cook

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. ~ James Cook

Better to have something to say than to have to say something. ~ James Cook

Government regulators are another name for police. ~ James Cook

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which. ~ James Cook

What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius. ~ James Cook

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory. ~ Julie Murphy

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life. ~ James Cook

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through. ~ James Cook

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own. ~ James Cook

Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress. ~ James Cook

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. ~ James Cook

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. ~ James Cook

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it. ~ James Cook

Most everything government does is worse than useless. ~ James Cook

Easier will always win out over harder. ~ James Cook

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance. ~ James Cook

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man. ~ James Cook

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith. ~ James Cook

Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits. ~ James Cook

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. ~ James Cook

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics. ~ James Cook

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was. ~ James Cook

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings. ~ James Cook

Suffering perfects the soul. ~ James Cook

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market. ~ James Cook

When you are aggrieved you learn. ~ James Cook

Beware the person who is on a hot streak. ~ James Cook

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do. ~ James Cook

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but ~ James Cook

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves. ~ James Cook

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows. ~ James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress. ~ James Cook

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity. ~ James Cook

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism. ~ James Cook

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted. ~ James Cook

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes. ~ James Cook

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. ~ James Cook

I ... had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before," wrote Captain James Cook, the eighteenth-century explorer of the Pacific, "but as far as it was possible for man to go." Two centuries later, Yuri Romanenko, on returning to Earth after what was then the longest space flight in history, said "The Cosmos is a magnet ... Once you've been there, all you can think of is how to get back. ~ Carl Sagan

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason. ~ James Cook

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. ~ James Cook

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security. ~ James Cook

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.' ~ James Cook

Management is simple, innovation is hard. ~ James Cook

Was Cook's ship a scientific expedition protected by a military force or a military expedition with a few scientists tagging along? That's like asking whether your petrol tank is half empty or half full. It was both. The Scientific Revolution and modern imperialism were inseparable. People such as Captain James Cook and the botanist Joseph Banks could hardly distinguish science from empire. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement. ~ James Cook

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. ~ James Cook

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government. ~ James Cook

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job. ~ James Cook

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God. ~ James Cook

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism. ~ James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything. ~ James Cook

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother. ~ James Cook

The English too, were turning their eyes to the South. In 1769, there was to be a transit of the planet Venus across the disc of the sun, a rare event which astronomers wanted to observe. The newly discovered island of Tahiti was judged the perfect site. The Royal Society in London asked the Royal Navy to organize the expedition. The Navy obliged. This was to have profound and unlooked-for consequences. It led to the virtual monopolization by naval officers of British Polar exploration until the first decade of this century. The voyage inspired by the transit of Venus was commanded by a man of quiet genius, James Cook, one of the greatest of discoverers. ~ Roland Huntford

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. ~ James Cook