Work & Money Sayings

The amount of good which a man can do to mankind can never be measured by the amount of money he gives.

We have to make the government understand that we mean business.

It is not enough to speak about peace. One must believe in it. And it is not enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I got rich and famous. And then I got scared. Because I realized I could lose it all.

The enemy, moreover, has begun to employ a new most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives.

When Reagan increases the bank rate, capital flows from Western Europe to America. So if you increase the bank rate in Dar, money will flow in from the peasants. This is stupid but the IMF cannot be stupid so we argue.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

I'm told that the only difference between a mathematician and a physicist is that a mathematician thinks about mathematics and a physicist thinks about physics. And a physicist is always trying to get a mathematician to do his dirty work.

With Malice toward none, with Charity for all, with Firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

The seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And what is true of the baby is true of the scientist.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing…

I'm a very successful woman. I've achieved a lot in my life. I've won a lot of awards. I've sold a lot of records. I've performed for a lot of people. I've made a lot of money.

I never thought I'd be in pictures. I never thought I'd be an actress. I never thought I'd be married. I never thought I'd have children. I never thought I'd be working for UNICEF. I'm astounded by life.

To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and their …