Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

I don't want to spend all the money I've made and then have to hustle fight to fight.

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

I have long believed that success stories need a bit of balance. We only hear from people who risked it all, and found it paid off.

I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.

Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.

Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream. Now we need to show that we can stop continually wanting more - more money, more stuff. We must show that it is possible for people to realise that they have enough.

You want to give your children better than what you had and make them feel like they have everything. But I think there is also a lot of value in making them work for things and allowing them to see other places.

Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve water. If our Hummers are a red flag in oil, maybe our Jacuzzis are the same for water.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.