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J. Irwin Miller
American
Businessman
About the author
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Money
#Restraint
#Manners
#Pursuit
#Shame
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Responsibility
#Sense
#Help
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Building
#Business
#Financial
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Sense
#Word
The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Service
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Public
#Crime
#Questions
#Education
#Taxes
#Drugs
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
J. Irwin Miller,
American
Businessman
#Style
#Poor
#Money
#Television