Shing's Quotes

#1. Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Harold Holzer

#3. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#4. It doesn't matter how strong or capable you are; if you don't have a big heart, you will not succeed.

Li Ka-shing

#5. For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event."
...
"Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Karen Hawkins

#6. I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.

Li Ka-shing

#7. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#8. It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

Ryan Graudin

#9. A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

Li Ka-shing

#10. We really seldom do anybody much good excepting as we share the deepest experiences of our souls... We need to struggle for more richness of soul." ("Letters By a Modern Mystic," January 26, 1930)

Frank C. Laubach

#11. What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Li Ka-shing

#13. Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Li Ka-shing

#14. Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law. - Romans 13:10

Gary Chapman

#15. I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

Li Ka-shing

#16. Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.

Leonard Mlodinow

#17. Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

Maelle Gavet

#18. When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

John Steinbeck

#19. We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,

Ann Druyan

#20. The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Ashton Applewhite

#21. The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.

Li Ka-shing

#22. I needed to save every penny ... I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That's why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.

Li Ka-shing

#23. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

#24. Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

Li Ka-shing

#25. Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

Li Ka-shing

#26. Once you're in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.

Li Ka-shing

#27. You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Li Ka-shing

#28. The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

Li Ka-shing

#29. In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn't matter how famous
or how capable you are.

Li Ka-shing

#30. Businessmen must move with the times ... the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Li Ka-shing

#31. I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

Cheryl Richardson

#32. Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

Li Ka-shing

#33. As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.

Li Ka-shing

#34. We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill ... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka-shing

#35. We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

Li Ka-shing

#36. Vision is perhaps our greatest strength ... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Li Ka-shing

#37. Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

Li Ka-shing

#38. I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Karl Marlantes

#39. She knew neither that she was living in the first century BC nor in the Hellenistic Age, both of them later constructs. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.

Stacy Schiff