To quote from his obituary site,
As a pioneer in both financial investments and philanthropy, John Templeton spent a lifetime encouraging open-mindedness. If he hadn’t sought new paths, he once said, he would have been unable to attain so many goals. The motto that Templeton created for his Foundation, “How little we know, how eager to [...]
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Sir John Templeton
Posted in Charity, Inspiration, Investments, money, tagged Charity, Investments on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
my motto
Posted in Charity, Inspiration, Resolutions on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The lines from rubaiyyat (Omar Khayyam)
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
before we too into the dust descend
dust into dust, and under dust to lie
sans wine, sans song, sans singer and sans end.
To leave a mark. To set right one disheveled rack of books. To remove one banana skin from the road. [...]
