“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.” OpportunityStarsSkyDespairFlowShipsUpliftingStreamsDryLeapWhere You AreBucketsAfar Author:Sam Walter Foss
“there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.” GivingKindStillsOpportunityWonderfulAdvantageFlowInvestingCustomersImprovementInventionAll KindsOwnersMore MoneyNew Inventions Author:Charlie Munger
“The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.” PeopleHumansFactsOpportunityKindnessFlowLuckEggsMisfortunesMilkNeighbourIrritatingCondolencesPoppingHuman Kindness Book:The Ivory Dagger Source: The Ivory Dagger