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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Risk is not a dirty word.
I do not like to be unkind.
A country does not go bankrupt.
Rest is by no means a waste of time.
I think I am basically a happy person.
You can't mine coal without machine guns.
The state is captive to vested interests.
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.
I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
Banking is a branch of the information business.
From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki
Real management is developing people through work.
A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.
When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
This purity is attained through conquering the passions.
My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.
Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be responsible.
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
Information about money is more important than money itself.
No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.
If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.
Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
