“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. 71
Address to the Fiji Law Society, Coral Coast, Fiji, 2 July 2005 (excerpts)
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. 71
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) British novelist and philosopher
Philosophy and Living (1939)
Context: Throughout man's career intelligence and charity have been man's distinctive and most valuable assets. One of our early pre-human ancestors is said to have been much like the Spectral Tarsier, a little mammal about the size of a mouse, with long wiry fingers and huge forward-looking eyes adapted for binocular vision. Not by weapons but by correlation of subtle eyes and subtle hands through subtle brain, this creature triumphed. And man himself conquered the world by the same means, by attention, by discrimination, by skilled manipulation, by versatility; in fact by intelligence and imagination in adapting himself to an ever-changing environment.
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Guy Browning (1964) British comedian
People, Office Politics (2006).
“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
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Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) First Prime Minister of Singapore
when asked about a Straits Times report that cited keen opposition interest in contesting Tampines GRC, which National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan helms, so that they can raise the affordability of public housing as an election issue. Prime Minister's Office, January 28 2010 http://www.pmo.gov.sg/content/pmosite/mediacentre/inthenews/ministermentor/2010/January/fewer_foreign_workersinfiveyearssaysmm.html <br class="br">2010s
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 57,
Aga Khan IV (1936) 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism
"Canada: 'A model for the world', in The Globe and Mail (2 February 2002)
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)