Quotes by Philanthropists - Page 2

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
Satya Sai Baba
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
Hate is such a luxurious emotion it can only be spent on one we love.
Bob Udkoff
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
In life as in chess forethought wins.
Charles Buxton
In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
Charles Buxton
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
Susie Spanos
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Charles Buxton
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Paul Getty
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
Lord Shaftesbury
The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
To make pleasure pleasant shorten.
Charles Buxton
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Paul Newman
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor R. Belmont
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
Hannah More
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.
Richard Branson
It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.
Jacob Lief
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
Charles T. Munger
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily
John D. Rockefeller
On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open
Bono
a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].
Catie Marron
Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But you minimize those risks by keeping one hand on the pump that is producing for you.
Kenneth E. Behring
One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.
Oprah Winfrey
The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.
Bono
Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.
Oprah Winfrey
You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.
Yusuf Islam
Contentment is the only real wealth
Albert Nobel
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.
Imran Khan
This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts.”- Eminem“Dope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful.”- Guru (Gang Starr)“You like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but go ahead.”- Mary J. Blige“Definitely a real interview! Digging deep up in there, man. Not afraid to ask questions!”- K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci)“The Wizard asked me for a copy of your magazine.”- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk)“You didn’t wear your glasses and you haven’t carried your hearing aid. What else is wrong with you?”- Bushwick Bill“Peace and blessing, Brother Harris. Thank you for inspiring my words. Keep ‘yo balance.”- Erykah Badu“Can I see that pen?”- Bobby Brown“What else do you want to know? Talk to me.”- Aaliyah
Harris Rosen
The most visible creators are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible ~ without brush, hammer, clay, or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt. Their medium is simply being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see, but don't have to draw...Because they are the artists of being alive... :) ~ ☆ ~ Donna J. Stone
Donna J. Stone
...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
Warren Buffett
When the great sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan would start building a new mosque, he would make sure both the design and the project were in harmony with the city's history and the city's spirit [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].
Catie Marron
In newer countries, you often find two types of public square: one that is older, organic, chaotic, and populated; and one that is recent, planned, orderly, and deserted. The first type predates the nation-state and accretes over time to accommodate the habits and needs, mainly commercial ones, of ordinary city dwellers. Its names are maidan, souq, bazaar, market. The second is constructed according to a master plan to embody the idealized qualities of the nation, often with grandiose results. The first thrusts people together in a public space, a hive if activity. Its essence is accidental and spontaneous. The second leaves nothing to chance. It tells people that they are subservient to the state and, in a sense, irrelevant to it [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].
Catie Marron
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Richard Branson
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".
Jeremy Grantham
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
Marketing is like sex—if you have to pay for it, you're doing something wrong
John Edson
advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service
John Edson
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"].
Catie Marron
If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.
Hannah More