“You’ve enlarged your original mission parameters. That’s what happens in war.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
“The Kielburgers are extremely accomplished and educated people who have demonstrated that they know how to build an organization, sell a vision, and court powerful people. If they had wanted to make loads of money and eat caviar on a private yacht, they could have taken lucrative private-sector jobs and done just that. It is absurd to think that they instead decided to work sixteen-hour days for twenty-five years, spend hundreds of days per year apart from their families, and invest everything they had in building a global charity—all as a means to funnel money back to themselves.”
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
“Well, you know what Stalin said: it’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes.”
― The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
― The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
“But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
― Burned Out
― Burned Out
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