The Jewish Wisdom Database

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Against every great and noble endeavor are a thousand mediocre minds.

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

The door of success is marked 'push' and 'pull.' Achieving success is knowing when to do what.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Greed is a stumbling-block.

None is more contemptible than the greedy man, for he will even sell his soul.

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of the community their highest life problem.

All education starts with forbidding.

To him who has the means and refuses the needy, the Holy One says: Bear in mind, fortune is a wheel!

Who gives to the poor shall not lack.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

If you see a man giving liberally, it means his wealth will grow; if you see one who shuns charity, it means his wealth will dwindle.

The great sages were porters, smiths, hewers of wood and drawers of water...accepting nothing from the community.

A friend in the market is better than gold in the chest.

Who fails to teach his son a trade might just as well have taught him to rob.

A man diligent in his business shall stand before kings.

The man who tills his land will have bread in plenty.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin.

A man should not put all his money in one corner.

Redemption, like a livelihood, must be earned each day.