Li Ka-shing Quotes

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

I think we need some new Christmas carols with a more modern approach. Of course, I wouldn't abandon the religious theme completely. How about "Holy Christ, the Christmas Tree's on Fire"? Or "Jesus, Can You Believe It's Christmas Again?" This ought to get the ball rolling; I'm hoping you people will take it from here.

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.

It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.

I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

There is nothing difficult about becoming a sage, and nothing false about transcending the world of appearances.

I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

He lived year after year. He attended only to himself and to God and this picture-but he did not understand himself.

I knew most married women in my community put up with everything and anything. Any abuse, hopelessness, and I thought, was I here to be used and be abused? I knew there was so much I could do with my life, but on my terms.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.