“Doc, I have an earache.” 2000 B.C. “Here, eat this root.” 1000 B.C. “That root is heathen, say this prayer.” 1850 A.D. “Prayer is superstition, drink this potion.” 1930 “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.” 1970 “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.” 2000 “That antibiotic is artificial, here,...
You hear a lot of strange things about tithing. Some say it is a church tax, and they expect me to pay it and that is the end of it. Others say that when I give God one-tenth of my income, He blesses the nine-tenths that is left to the extent that the nine-tenths now goes as far as the whole thing used to go. This isn’t really true, is it? Suppose a farmer had 100 bushels of corn in the barn...
Teach us to realize how short our lives are. Then our hearts will become wise. The Bible, Psalms 90:12 (NIRV) – Quotations book 2009
If you cut down advertisement to save money, you might as well stop your watch to save time. attributed to Henry Ford – American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947), Quotations book 2009
A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation. attributed to James Freeman Clarke – American preacher and author (1810-1888), Quotations book 2009
We didn’t really need all that fancy legal stuff. The lawyers have a way of dragging you in and making things more complicated than they are. We were paying huge legal bills at that time, and I don’t think any of that would have affected the outcome. When the dust settles, you find out it was all just a huge waste of time, energy and money. Robert “Bob” Warren Miller –...
Every time we”ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. Thomas John Watson, Jr. – American manager, 1952-71 president of IBM (1914-1993), Quotations book 2009
Isreael’s lack of natural resources, such as oil, is actually a benefit, because it has required us to be innovative and to engage in hard work. Stef Wertheimer – Israeli entrepreneur, founder of ISCAR (1926-2025), Quotations book 2009
Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment – “Thou shalt not covet” – recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the...
Some […] regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is – the strong and willing horse that pulls the whole cart. Sir Winston L. Churchill – British politician, 1940-45 and 1951-55 Prime Minister, Nobel Prize in literature 1953 (1874-1965), in a speech in Woodford, Essex, from...
My observation over the past two decades is that most investors who significantly outperform the market over the longer run, do so because of their implicit or explicit utilization of good theories along the way. In using these, they prove less wrong than the consensus and thus end up richer. Dr. Horace “Woody” Brock – American business consultant, founder and president of...
Migrants do not so much break the law as the law breaks them. Hernando de Soto – Peruvian economist (b. 1941), from “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else” (2000), second chapter, Quotations book 2009
Duty without Love creates annoyance. Truth without Love creates addiction to criticism. Education without Love creates contradiction. Cleverness without Love turns cagey. Responsibility without Love turns inconsiderate. Justice without Love creates hardness. Politeness without Love creates hypocrisy. Order without Love creates pettiness. Knowledge without Love turns obstinate. Power without...
Walk carefully as you come here for God is here before you. Walk humbly as you come here for two or three are gathered. Walk softly as you come here for the spirit may speak in the silence of this place. from Ireland
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. Henry Ford – American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947), from “My life and Work” (1922), Quotations books 2009 + 2024
What is possible with man is possible with God. The Bible, Lucas 18:27 (NIV) – Zitateheft 2009 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...
Integrity has no need for rules. Albert Camus – Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from “The Myth of Sisyphos” (“Le mythe de Sisyphe”, 1942), Zitateheft 2009
Many are those who will give advice, but few are those who will accept it with gratitude, and even fewer are those who will follow it. After the age of 30, man becomes generally impermeable to guidance. And when guidance no longer reaches him, he rapidly becomes full of pride and self-interest. For the rest of his days, he adds impudence to foolishness, which causes his irreversible fall....
There is no one so rich that they don”t need help or so poor that they cannot help. Proverb – Quotations book 2009
It is an anomaly of modern life that many find giving to be a burden. Such persons have omitted a preliminary giving. If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. attributed to John S. Bonnell – American pastor and author (1893-1992), Quotations book 2009