"God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them."

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Source : T. D. Jakes (2002). “The Great Investment: Balancing. Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life”, p.47, Penguin

T. D. Jakes

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Return Quotes

“I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier”
“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
“Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.”
“The sunlight ... that strikes Earthâ€™s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.”
“There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.”
“The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we make them. A lot of people won't make a bold bet. A bold bet doesn't assure you of winning, but if you make no bold bets you can't continue to succeed. Our industry doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels forever. I mean, you can milk any great idea. Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan
“It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes.”

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