“Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.” HeartJoyOpportunityActingBalanceLaborTasksObligationManageRemarkableRacistCompleting Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.” ThinkingGivingKindFactsHelpingCoursesOpportunityBeliefSocialRolesRevolutionNeededBalanceHealthyDemandDeterminationTasksInstitutionsDefinitionsAggressiveAfflictionConfrontationUnhealthySocial Roles Author:Barbara Deming
“The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.” GivingMatterLightJoyCertainSongOpportunityStyleListeningAmountBalanceEqualSuperiorsSongwritingBuddyEqual OpportunityHolliesWriting Style Author:M. Ward
“There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.” PeopleCertainOpportunityEnjoyBalanceFindingsCaughtCaught UpFlatteryWanting You Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.” PeopleGivingMayOpportunityBalanceTaxesCharityBe GoodFavorsEstatesDynastyEstate Taxes Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.” SelfHandsPoliticalFoundOpportunityWealthJusticeEconomyVirtueDoorsTalentBalanceSafeDemandBasesPropertyBraveChecksIdleMeterCommonwealthAdjustingIndustriousImbecilesPolitical Economy Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.” LongUseCareOpportunityTermInterestingResultsBalanceBehaviorComfortableBasesStructureRateInvestingCommittedDebtObligationFixedLong TermRejectsPortionsConsideringSheetsEquityConservatismNet WorthLendersBalance SheetsFiduciary Author:Warren Buffett