Words matter. These are the best Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn’t real philanthropy; that’s just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.
I’ve had cancer four times. But you know, God has blessed me, and I feel so honored and so privileged in the blessings of life.
Integrity is critical to our lives – and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.
When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it’s about who can bid the highest. There’s no personal interest. It’s a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn’t like much.
The time to give away money is when you make it.
I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don’t come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.
True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.
All men and women need a roof over their heads and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don’t know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.
Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God’s feelings with us at all times.
We should never have any political or religious organization filter our news.
Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don’t deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.
If someone said, ‘Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,’ I’d have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.
Our Heavenly Father expects the best from each of us. We must believe in ourselves. Don’t give in when the going gets rough. You are laying the foundation of a great work, and that great work is your life.
As a senior in high school with no money working several jobs, I was sent to a wonderful school on the East Coast by a wonderful Jewish man. I’ve never forgotten that. I’ve sent over 5,000 young people to school around the world in memory of him because he was so gracious to me.
Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can’t take it with them.
You’re in the game of life to fight. If you’re in business, and you’re not aggressively building, you shouldn’t be in.
Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.
I love to give money away. I don’t know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.
In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it’s a bad thing for our party.
Decide who you are and what your goals entail – then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.
I’m the only one in America who belongs to the ‘Cure Cancer’ party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.
Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it’s a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.
I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they’re going to be.
If people are going to give, they’re going to give. And it doesn’t matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it’s all according to your ability.
