Quotes About Stewardship

Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.

So first find a low-cost fund whose managers are major shareholders, dare to be different, don't hype their returns, and have shown a willingness to shut down before they get too big for their britches. Then, and only then, consult their Morningstar rating.10

He also wants to see managers who set and meet realistic goals; build their businesses from within rather than through acquisition; allocate capital wisely; and do not pay themselves hundred-million-dollar jackpots of stock options.

Walter Lippmann spoke of men who plant trees that other men will sit under. Ben Graham was such a man.

It must never be forgotten that a stockholder is an owner of the business and an employer of its officers. He is entitled not only to ask legitimate questions but also to have them answered, unless there is some persuasive reason to the contrary.

The earth is Yours, O Lord, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. (Ps. 24:1) For You, my Lord, are a great God, the great King above all gods. In Your hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to You. The sea is Yours, for You made it, and Your hands formed the dry land. (Ps. 95:3–5)

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

He acknowledged our God-given need to matter by telling us to rule over them and subdue them. Furthermore, God could have made the garden of Eden self-maintaining. Instead, He appointed Adam to work it and take care of it. God could have created the animals with names, but He knew Adam could use the challenge and the satisfaction naming them would bring. In the same way Eve received a purpose that granted significance. No one else was a suitable helper to Adam.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Decades of eco-terrorism have effectively shut down our national forests from responsible management.

Let's shut down the EPA.

I don't want to shut down government.

Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.

I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

She is a wide bed who holds both democracy and empire

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Quienes nos precedieron nos entregaron un tesoro que tenemos la obligación de custodiar; pero no pasivamente, como si fuese una pieza arqueológica, sino con el esmero creativo con que cuidamos un árbol restallante de savia, para que nos brinde una sombra cada vez más frondosa

Course I don't own the land," she said as if speaking to a simpleton, "no body own the land. The land own us.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.