We must preach, not after the manner of doctors of divinity, but after the manner of those unlearned and ignorant men in the olden time who had been with Jesus, and learned of him. Brethren, some of you have too much armor on. Put it off: be simple, be natural, be artless, be plain-spoken, be trustful in the living God, and you will succeed. Charles Haddon Spurgeon - English Baptist pastor...
Life is a marathon, not a sprint, and the thing that gets you to the end is perseverance and determination. Arthur J. Falcone – American real estate developer, chairman and CEO of Falcone Group (b. 1959), Quotations book 2024
What gives you opportunities is other people doing dumb things. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting (May 6th, 2023), Quottions book 2024
Without breaking any laws, the number of ways in which those in control can benefit themselves and their families at the expense of the ordinary shareholder is almost infinite. [...] There is only one real protection against abuses like these. This is to confine investments to companies the managements of which have a highly developed sense of trusteeship and moral responsibility to their...
I pray that each one of you be holy and so spread His love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better, happier. Mother Teresa - born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Albanian-born Indian nun and order's founder, Nobel Peace Prize 1979 (1910-1997), Quotations book 2024
I always look to invest in a manager who has made the company his or her life's work. Robert "Rob" Vinall – British value investor, founder and managing director of RV Capital (b. 1973), Quotations book 2024
What you want in life is a young doctor and an old investment advisor: The doctor is at the peak of his knowledge when he graduates medical school and a thoughtful investment advisor should be growing in wisdom every day. Thomas "Tom" S. Gayner– American investor, CO-CEO and CIO Markel Corp (b. 1961), Quotations book...
People think focus means saying "yes" to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying "no" to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying "no" to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs - American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), at...
Our favourite and most frequent acquisitions are the businesses that we buy from founders. When a founder invests the better part of a lifetime building a business, a long term orientation tends to permeate all aspects of the enterprise: employee selection and development, establishing and building symbiotic customer relationships, and evolving sophisticated product suites. Mark Leonard –...
If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter. saying, based on a quotze by Blaise Pascal - French mathematician and philosopher, (1623-1662), from "Lettres Provinciales" (1657): Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. I only made this one (letter) longer because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter. Quotations...
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
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...
Faith is the fantastic adventure in trusting Him. acronym, following Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom – Dutch writer, member of the resistance (1892-1983), Quotations book 2024
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
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,...