Amadeo Giannini quotes

“It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.”
-- Amadeo Giannini

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“I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.”
-- Amadeo Giannini

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“No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.”
-- Amadeo Giannini

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“I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.”
-- Amadeo Giannini

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“My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.”
-- Amadeo Giannini

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“Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.”
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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”

“The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”

“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”