
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
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.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. 71
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.
“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
Maxim 108
Sentences
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
2010s
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 57,
"Canada: 'A model for the world', in The Globe and Mail (2 February 2002)
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)