I do not like to be unkind.
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
Those unproductive hands may consume so great a share that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate this violent and forced encroachment.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.
Whether you think you can, or you think you cant youre right.
My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Who we are now is all that really matters.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
