Charles Ranlett Flint quotes

Charles Ranlett Flint quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.”
-- Charles Ranlett Flint

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“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”
“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.33, Vintage
“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
“Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.”
“The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.”
“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Source : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.”

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