Quotation Collection

If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• excellence

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. George Pataki

• welfare
• responsibility

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. Henrik Ibsen

• money

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. Charlie Munger

• imitation
• uniqueness