Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
"Business — The New Profession", La Follette's Weekly Magazine, Volume 4, No. 47 (November 23, 1912), p. 7.
Extra-judicial writings
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“…the joy of winning the World Cup cannot be compared with any amount of money”
Kapil Dev (1959) Indian cricketer
Kapil Dev: 30 years on, I can still recall India World Cup victory
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
"Business — The New Profession", La Follette's Weekly Magazine, Volume 4, No. 47 (November 23, 1912), p. 7.
Extra-judicial writings
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
The summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence (October 2009) http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Joy_in_the_Merely_Real <br class="br">Context: If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo — but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical — then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) French priest, founder and saint
As quoted in Reflection for November 5 in Saint Companions for Each Day (1986) by A. J. M. Mousolfe & J. K. Mousolfe, p. 417
“We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.”
Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.
Book II; xix, 3
Amores (Love Affairs)
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 94.
Usually quoted as "Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
Robert Aaron Gordon (1908–1978) American economist
Source: Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), p. 347