"People want to give back. People want to do good"

“I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.”

“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”

“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.”

“Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.”

Source : "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.

“I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.”

“A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”

“People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.”

“How many would die did not hope sustain them...”

Source : Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.179