We’ll continue exploring John Templeton’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at the third of five economic vices he discusses in the speech. The third economic vice is pride. Every businessman who has to work [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Economic Vice #3: Pride
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Philosophy, Quotes on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Economic Vice #2: Greed
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Money, Philanthropy, Quotes on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we’ll continue exploring John Templeton’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at the second of five economic vices he discusses in the speech. A related economic vice is greed. Because of greed, the modern [...]
Economic Vice #1: Envy
Posted in Economy, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Economics and Religion, morality, Sir John quotes on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we’ll continue exploring Sir John’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll begin looking at what he called “the five economic vices” with an examination of envy. Ironically, the temptation toward envy is intensified [...]
Spirituality and Business II
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Economics and Religion, Sir John quotes, Spirituality, vices on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today we’ll continue exploring Sir John’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” Most people agree today that society has lost much of its spiritual moorings. We no longer have enough collective sense of our responsibilities to each other. [...]
What Would John Templeton NOT Say?
Posted in Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Quotes, tagged books, financial history, Sir John quotes on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was one particular phrase that Sir John Templeton regarded as supremely dangerous. He conditioned his own mind to resist entertaining this poisonous thought, and he always cautioned his fellow investors to do the same, lest they bring financial ruin upon themselves. So what was the offending sentence? “This time is different.” While perusing the [...]
Spirituality and Business
Posted in Economy, Quotes, tagged Economics and Religion, Sir John quotes, Spirituality on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Tis the season! The season during which many companies accumulate a large portion of their financial activity and also the season during which many individuals accumulate the better part of their spiritual activity. Every year, it seems, we hear increased outrage over the ways that commercial interests have increasingly been competing with spiritual interests during [...]
Link Roundup
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy December! Let’s do another link roundup, shall we? Definition-For-Social.info “Wealth Distribution and Inheritance – What Will They Buy? Cars“: offers a brief and respectful counter argument to some of Sir John’s predictions. Penny Sleuth “The 10 Rules for Successful Investing“: advises you to “buy and manage” rather than the commonly used phrase “buy and [...]
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