Kenneth Mason quotes

“Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.”
-- Kenneth Mason

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“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”

Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.

“Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?”

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”

“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”