Birth: September 22, 1952
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal..
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it..
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows..
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior..
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy..
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members..
The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital..
Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals..
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God..
One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone..
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it..
Long-term success depends upon trust..
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism..
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals..
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Mora….
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control..
Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience..
Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing..
Business is the real test of the moral life..
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital..