Howard E. Koch Quotes

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Don't spit in the soup. We've all got to eat.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

It doesn't matter whether the challenge we face is large or small, whether it's a statewide disaster or a crisis just on our own block - Nebraskans face it with courage, goodwill, and the unwavering conviction that we are part of one community of neighbors and friends.

The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and so is your neighbor' - that part is essential: that you're not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.

I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

If somebody is good to me, I'll reciprocate. What's the harm? If somebody says 'Hello' to me, I won't turn my back on him.

I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor's visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don't have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.

Well, I have a good relationship with everybody. So, it's difficult to be a bad relationship with me.

I think all of us naturally want to be a part of a community... at home and at work.