Prayers
Thy prayers are all filed in heaven, and if not immediately answered they are certainly not forgotten. Charles Haddon Spurgeon - English Baptist pastor (1834-1892), from "Morning and Evening: Daily Readings" (1866), Quotations book 2016
Month: July 2015
Decisions
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. Abraham Zaleznik - American professor (Harvard Business School) and social psychologist (1924-2011)
Obstacles
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. attributed to Henry Ford - American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947)
Prowess
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn"t do. attributed to Henry Ford - American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947)
Competition
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his business better all the time. Henry Ford - American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947)
Hard work
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. Henry Ford - American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947), from "My Life and Work" (1922)
Money
There are a thousand possibilities to "waste" money but only two ways to earn it: Either we work for it – or the money works for us. attributed to Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965)
Individuality
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965)
Correctness
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts. attributed to Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965)
Moral Values
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. Vaclav Havel - Czech writer and politician, 1993-2003 president of the Czech Republik (1936-2011)
Market-economy
Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy, in which everything belongs to someone - which means that someone is responsible for everything. It is a system in which complete independence and plurality of economic entities exist within a legal framework, and its workings are guided chiefly by the laws of the...
Aims
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. attributed to Michelangelo - born Michelangiolo Buonarroti Simoni, Italian skulptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Boldness
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie - born Dale Carnagey, American author and personality coach (1888-1955)
Trust
I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light safer than a known way." Minnie Louise Haskins - British sociologist at the London School of Economics (1875-1957)
Power is dispensable
You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough to get everything done. attributed to Sir Charles S. "Charlie" Chaplin - british actor (1889-1977), could not be verified by the Chaplin Association
Christmas
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. attributed to Agnes M. Pharo - American author (1904-1985)
Gifts
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden - American Basketball player and coach (1910-2010)
Meaning of life
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. attributed to François-Auguste-René Rodin - French sculptor (1840-1917)
Economic Growth
Economic growth not only increases material living standards; it shapes the moral character of people and society. Benjamin M. Friedman - American economist (b. 1944)
Bend history
Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and then the total -- all of these acts -- will be written in the history of this generation. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy - American jurist and senator (1925-1968), from the "Day of Affirmation speech" at the Cape Town university, South Africa in June 1966