John W. Gardner

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

John W. Gardner

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

John W. Gardner

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John W. Gardner

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

John W. Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

John W. Gardner

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

John W. Gardner

If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college.

John W. Gardner