Jacob Schiff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.
-- Jacob Schiff

#Custodians #Stewardship #Wealth
Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.
-- Jacob Schiff

#Country #Credit #Adequate
Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated.
-- Jacob Schiff

#Past #Thinking #Years
If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.
-- Jacob Schiff

#Rights #People #Liberty

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.
The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
I don't like inherited wealth.
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

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