Quotes by Philanthropists - Page 5

If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.
Eli Evans
Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.
Richard Branson
Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream
Oprah Winfrey
We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.
Warren Buffett
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
Charles T. Munger
I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.
Richard Branson
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
John D. Rockefeller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
Paul Allen
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Paul Allen
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.
Richard Branson
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
Warren Buffett
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.
Richard Branson
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
Warren Buffett
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise
Ted Turner
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
When I didn't have friends, I had books.
Oprah Winfrey
I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on May 15, and was soon, at least in my own estimation, apparently beyond recovery. The weaker I became in body, the happier I was in spirit. Never in my whole life had I seen myself so vile, so guilty, so altogether what I ought not to have been, as at this time. It was as if every sin of which I had been guilty was brought to my remembrance; but at the same time I could realize that all my sins were completely forgiven—that I was washed and made clean, completely clean, in the blood of Jesus. The result of this was great peace. I longed exceedingly to depart and be with Christ. When my medical attendant came to see me, my prayer was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that he does not know what is for my real welfare, therefore do Thou direct him.” When I took my medicine, my hearty prayer each time was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that this medicine is in itself nothing, no more than as if I were to take a little water. Now please, O Lord, to let it produce the effect which is for my real welfare, and for Thy glory. Let me either be taken soon to Thyself, or let me be soon restored; let me be ill for a longer time, and then taken to Thyself, or let me be ill for a longer time, and then restored. O Lord, do with me as seemeth Thee best!
George Müller
True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
Bono
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More
Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light
Will.i.am
Living Life In The Fast Lane is Great...Until You Crash.
David Murdock
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
George Müller
ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance.
Bono
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.
John Templeton
You only grow when you are alone.
Paul Newman
The battle over society—its direction, its temper, its organization, its character—is often played out on the square. But the battle rarely ends; it does not easily resolve [David Remnick, "Geopolitics: Strength in Numbers"].
Catie Marron
If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?
Laura Schroff
Life is not fair, get used to it
Bill Gates
You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
Warren Buffett
If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal.
Mavis Leno
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
Oprah Winfrey
The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.
George Soros
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.
George Soros
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
George Soros
My main concern is with the world order
George Soros
Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)
George Soros
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Warren Buffett
The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.
George Soros
Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
Everyone wants 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
One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...
Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Bono
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
Bono
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species
Philip Wollen
We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.
Steven C. Rockefeller