The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.
Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
Courage. . . is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [. . . ] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.
The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving money from one pool to another, whereas technology is what allows us to create value out of thin air.
Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it. Teach them about the purposes of the House of the Lord. Have them plan from their earliest years to go there and to remain worthy of that blessing.