Woodrow Wilson Quotes

5 quotes from Woodrow Wilson on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

On entrepreneurship

• When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

On motivation

• If you want to make enemies try to change something.