John Templeton ,quotes

If you reflect on your life, ...

If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

In my 45-year career as an in...

In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

We hope that there will be no...

We hope that there will be nothing that conflicts with anybody's religion or faith. We would never say a person's religion is not effective. We say, 'Would you be interested in something more effective?' We always put things in an optimistic, progressive perspective. 'Do you want to make your prayers more effective? Not that they are not effective, but do you want to help them become more effective?'

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

As we begin to praise ourselv...

As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

The other boys at Yale came f...

The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

I have observed 100,000 famil...

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

Faith does not imply a closed...

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

John Templeton 10.08.2025 21:06:27 131 quotes

Three of my children are medic...

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

John Templeton 12.03.2018 14:45:32 131 quotes

I'm really convinced that our ...

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton 12.03.2018 14:45:32 131 quotes

Happiness comes from spiritual...

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . -John Templeton.