Jim Burke famous quotes

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.
-- Jim Burke

#People #Found #Prove

The volatile natural gas market has affected us all, and we are giving our customers an option to lock in their electricity price for the entire year. This will allow them to anticipate their electricity bills and budget accordingly throughout 2006.
-- Jim Burke

#Years #Giving #Locks

You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people.
-- Jim Burke

#Running #Long #People

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

I found I have to stay painting.

Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.