Malloch Quotes

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience. ~ Ted Malloch

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. ~ Douglas Malloch

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital. ~ Ted Malloch

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it. ~ Ted Malloch

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. ~ Ted Malloch

Business is the real test of the moral life. ~ Ted Malloch

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues. ~ Ted Malloch

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy. ~ Ted Malloch

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows. ~ Ted Malloch

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~ Douglas Malloch

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital. ~ Ted Malloch

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control. ~ Ted Malloch

In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises. ~ Ted Malloch

A liar freely gives his oath ~ Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are. ~ Douglas Malloch

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing. ~ Ted Malloch

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals. ~ Ted Malloch

Courage ... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal. ~ Ted Malloch

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God. ~ Douglas Malloch

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature. ~ Ted Malloch

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it. ~ Ted Malloch

The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~ Douglas Malloch

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles. ~ Ted Malloch

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals. ~ Ted Malloch

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them. ~ Ted Malloch

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God. ~ Ted Malloch

Good Timber

by Douglas Malloch

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.

Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.

Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life. ~ Douglas Malloch

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it. ~ Ted Malloch