Sunday, January 29, 2006

Daily Quotes: Bob Wright


Being posted on the day before the trials of Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling begin:

...nothing is more important than hiring smart, capable people who have unimpeachable integrity. By the way, you need both: integrity without knowledge is useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Daily Quotes: Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and authority: still more when you superadd the tendancy or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Daily Quotes: Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Daily Quotes: George W. Bush

At this moment, America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Daily Quotes: Pearl S. Buck

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Daily Quotes: Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Daily Quotes: Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Daily Quotes: Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.