Quotes by Philanthropists - Page 5

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
Warren Buffett
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
Imran Khan
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
Imran Khan
Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention…it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce.
Oprah Winfrey
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
Bono
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
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
You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics; in physical laws every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely sure of it. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that "as you reap, so you will sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep s---. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity
Bono
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Charlie Munger
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service
John Edson
Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.
Oprah Winfrey
In life as in chess forethought wins.
Charles Buxton
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
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
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
We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
Laura Schroff
When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!
Oprah Winfrey
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
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.
Bono
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.
John Templeton
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
The fatigue of the climb was great but it is interesting to learn once more how much further one can go on one's second wind. I think that is an important lesson for everyone to learn for it should also be applied to one's mental efforts. Most people go through life without ever discovering the existance of that whole field of endeavor which we describe as second wind. Whether mentally or physically occupied most people give up at the first appearance of exhaustion. Thus they never learn the glory and the exhilaration of genuine effort...
Agnes Elizabeth née Ernst Meyer
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.
Bill Gates
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
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
The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up
Abdul Sattar Edhi
The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
Bill Gates
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Paul Allen
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
Allah exalts whom he wills!
Imran Khan
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth
Imran Khan
The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.
Melinda Gates
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey
Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing―—and admirable―—but that following through and completing―—well, that’s where the bravery is.
Valerie Estess
It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
William R. Bowen
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
Oprah Winfrey
Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.
George Müller
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Charlie Munger
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough
Richard M DeVos
The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.
Bono
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
Bono
Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
Oprah Winfrey
In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.
Sheila C. Johnson
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
Kevin Durant
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Warren Buffett
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
[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.
Marina Picasso
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Warren Buffett
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
Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.