Quotes About Stewardship

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

Conservation is now a dead word.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure that we treat water the way it deserves.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it and to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I'm gonna watch the taxpayers' money like I was elected to do.

One of the biggest responsibilities the legislature holds every year is allocating our taxpayers' hard-earned money responsibly and efficiently.

I always felt like, 'I hope Oprah teaches a class to everybody when they get super famous about how to use, responsibly, that blessing.'

There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

The Earth should not be a worse place after my life than it was when I was born here.

Leadership must entail trusteeship. Leaders are stewards of the unwritten rules we once took for granted, that constituted the common good.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.

Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

My best friend, Mike, had an asset column handed to him, but he still had to choose to learn to keep it. Many rich families lose their assets in the next generation simply because there was no one trained to be a good steward over their assets.

And while I am glad some people have become richer and richer, I caution them that in the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

It's not how much you make but how much you keep—and how many generations you keep it.