I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin - Amerikan politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790), from his attempt to the government "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor" (1766)
I like what I do so much that I don’t consider it work. Albert L. Ueltschi – American pilot and businessman, founder and until 1952 president "FlightSafety International" (1917-2012), Quotations book 2024
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. Billy Graham – born William Franklin Graham Jr., American evangelist (1918-2018), "Twitter" post from Jun 06, 2015 (since 2023 "X"), Quotations book 2024
We've got no money, so we've got to think. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize in chemistry 1908 (1871-1937), as quotes by his colleague Edward Andrade (English physicist, 1887-1971) in "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom" (1964), Quotations book 2024
Roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land. Pearl S. Buck - American writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1938 (1892-1973), from "The Good Earth", chapter XXX (1931)
If you could invest in only one of your fellow classmates, who would you choose? If you could buy, say, 10% of the future earnings of just one classmate, who would you choose? What would you look for? Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), freely adapted from a lecture to students at the University of Florida School of Business...
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. Paulo Coelho de Souza – Brazilian writer (b. 1947), in a "Facebook" post from May 16th, 2011, Quotations book 2024 Se você andar apenas nos dias de sol, jamais vai chegar ao seu destino. Paulo Coelho de Souza - escritor brasileiro (*1947), em um post "Facebook" (16.5.2011), Caderno de Citações...
Let all that you do be done in love. The Bible, 1 Corinthians 16:14 (ESV) - Quotations book 2024 The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) - he belonged to the Confessing Church - decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil courage! He has established...
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. Georg Müller - German protestant Theologean and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, (1805-1898), as quoted in "The Churchman" (25 December 1897)
There is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:22 (NIV) - Quotations book 2024
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do. The Bible, Jacob 1:22 + 25 (NIV) - Quotations book 2024
Creativity is contagious, pass it on. wisdom, falsely attributed to Albert Einstein - German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955)
You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling. And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling, you hit the jackpot because that’s the big deal. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos – American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), from his speech at the George W. Bush's Presidential Center's Forum on Leadership (2018), Quotations book 2024
Rebuking troublemakers, comforting the fainthearted, looking after the weak, refuting opponents, being on guard against the devious, teaching the ignorant, rousing the lazy, restraining the quarrelsome, resisting the conceited, calming people fighting, helping the poor, liberating the oppressed, encouraging the good, tolerating the bad – and loving them all. Corripiendi sunt inquieti,...
In value investing you can improve when you’re old. You get an enormous advantage from practice in this field. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2024
Don’t say it can not be done, rather say,you don’t know how to do it yet. Tomáš Baťa - Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Bata shoe company (1876-1932), Quotations book 2024