Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush LimbaughThe very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George WashingtonA good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas FullerOne good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas PaineIf you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanIf it is good and will harm no one go ahead. If it is not good put it aside. If not sure do nothing until sure.
Sai BabaBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaAtomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.
Winston ChurchillWhat does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?
Mitt RomneyWhat this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose BierceLet us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us, and endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is faulty and imitating what is excellent in them.
PlutarchYou must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. NixonTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchThis is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve JobsAn educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole.
Warren BuffettA general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthurWe didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things by producing goods we could sell.
Barack ObamaA wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas JeffersonI have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. BushIf money help a man to do good to others it is of some value, but if not it is simply a mass of evil and the sooner it is got rid of the better.
Swami VivekanandaWar never takes a wicked man by chance the good man always.
SophoclesA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSeek ye first the good things of the mind and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis BaconAs individuals people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsSo it was a good field but the most important thing was that the team came up with a very difficult plan for me. Lance helped me a lot and having an idol a mentor like that to come up with a plan and for me to put the icing on the cake was a huge accomplishment. It taught me that if I believe in myself I can push my own limits. I hope to achieve that here next year even more and hopefully arrive at the top eventually.
Lance ArmstrongWe are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George WashingtonIf you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis SingerMoney makes a good servant but a bad master.
Francis BaconHe that gives good advice builds with one hand, he that gives good counsel and example builds with both, but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis BaconThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.
Joseph AddisonLike the old soldier of the ballad I now close my military career and just fade away an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthurEvery religion is good that teaches man to be good, and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas PaineMoney is like muck not good except it be spread.
Francis BaconHow is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking drinking liquor meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.
Sai BabaA good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas FullerIt is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WhiteTalking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds.
William ShakespeareThat industry is in a state of flux right now. It's historically earned very good returns on invested capital but it could well be that the world will unfold differently in the future than in the past. I'm not sure I can give you a good answer on that.
Warren BuffettDon't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan SwiftI personally think it would be better if the NYSE remained as a neutral not-for-big-profit institution. The exchange has done a very good job over the centuries. It's one of the most important institutions in the world. The enemy of investment is activity.... I know the American investor will not be better off if volume doubles on the NYSE and I know the NYSE will be trying to figure out how to do that if it is trying to maximize its own earnings per share. GM or IBM will not earn more money if their stock turns over more actively but a for-profit NYSE will.
Warren BuffettIf money titles meant anything I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year then it's been a good year.
Tiger Woods