Quotes About Stewardship

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

2. Lake Erie The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue.

As stewards of the gospel, we have no greater call than to prepare others for eternity with grace and truth. I want you eternally sure.

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind? Grey: We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on-in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century-if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species. Page: Follow that if you can, Mr. President.

He hath cause also to walk humbly with God and be little in his own eyes, and to remember withal, that his gifts are not his own, but the churches; and that by them he is made a servant to the church; and he must also give at last an account of his stewardship unto the Lord Jesus, and to give a good account will be a blessed thing.

Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it just smells. But if you spread it around, you can encourage things to grow.

REMIND YOURSELF THAT LEADERSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. said, "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." The

The secret of the surrendered life is giving God the first part of every day, the first day of every week, the first portion of your income, the first consideration in every decision, and the first place in all of your life.

Management has no power. Management has only responsibility." I

Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.

The board's position is, therefore, to act as the link between owners and management, directing and controlling the company on the owners' behalf. Put another way, the reason owners grant such authority is to enable the board to act as the ownership in microcosm.

We rule the design of the house. We own the kitchen.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you've made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

I'm not one of the guys that didn't know how to manage my money.