Saturday, August 09, 2008

Paying Workers Easier Than Charitable Giving

"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity" -- Samuel Johnson

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Location Doesn't Matter to Seller With Best Goods

"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A Good Deed Unrewarded Often Goes Undone

"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward." -- Ovid

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Disreali: Sharing Riches Includes Discovery

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." -- Benjamin Disraeli

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Money Buys Heavenly Goods if Good is Done With It

"By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven." -- John Rutledge

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