John Quelch Quotes

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

When we give, we receive much more than what we have given.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.