Chap 1 - Selected Quotes
- “Business underlies everything in our
national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact in the Lord’s Prayer; the first petition is
for daily bread. No one can worship
God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
-Woodrow Wilson
- “I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money,
producing things people need. I
believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment
is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.”
-John Paul Getty
- The Decision of Life is Between Good
and Evil:
“Our lives are made
up of thousands of everyday choices.
Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show
clearly what we value.
The
crucial test of life, I repeat, does not center in the choice between fame and
obscurity, nor between wealth and poverty.
The greatest decision of life is between good and evil.”
-Elder
Boyd K. Packer
- “Striving to better oneself isn’t just
private virtue. It sows the seeds
of economic growth and technical advancement. There’s no denying that the system allows some Americans to
become richer then others. We must
accept that. Equality of income is
not what has made the US economy grow and prosper. It’s opportunity . . . Our proper
cultural icon is not the common man.
It’s the self-made man or woman.”
- “The most exhilarating, exciting, and
empowering business experience you can have is being an entrepreneur, even
though it is as tough and risky a task as you can undertake.”
-Earl G. Graves
Founder
and publisher of
Black
Enterprise magazine