Quotes on People

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

The business of business is people.

Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.