These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a soda can, when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years.
Michael Jordan will make over $300 000 a game : $10 000 a minute, assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.
Assuming $40 million in endorsements this year, he’ll be making $178100 a day (working or not)!
Assuming he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52 000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it’ll cost him $7 , but he’ll make $18 550 while he’s there.
If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he’ll make $618 while boiling it.
He makes $7 415 per hour more than the minimum wage (after the wage hike).
He’ll make $3 710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90 000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2 every second.
He’d probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33 390 for that round.
Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into his tax deferred account, he will hit the federal cap of $9 500 for such accounts at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st, 1998.
If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you’d be living comfortably at $65 000 a year.
He’ll make about $19.60 while watching the hundred meter dash in the Olympics. He’ll make about $15600 while the Boston Marathon is being run.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he’ll pull in about $5600.
Next year he’ll make more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all their terms combined.
Amazing, isn’t it?
BUT: Jordan will have to save 100% of his income for 270 years to have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates today !
When Italy started strictly enforcing the seatbelt law entrepreneur Claudio Ciaravolo saw a great opportunity.
He invented the "security shirt". It is a white T-shirt with a thick black diagonal stripe designed to give the impression you are wearing a seat belt.
The only problem with the T-shirt, of course, is that it doesn't protect you in the event of a collision.
In the same way, there are a number of religious rituals we can go through that may look good on the surface, but they can not offer the security of a real, dynamic, personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
"dad@hvn,ur spshl. we want wot u want&urth2b like hvn.giv us
food&4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz.don't test us!save us! bcos we kno
ur boss,ur tuf&ur cool 4 eva!ok?"
-- Matthew Campbell, a history student at York University in the UK,
who wrote this rendition of the Lord's Prayer for cell phone text
messaging. Campbell was the winner of a contest sponsored by Ship of
Fools ( http://www.ship-of-fools.com/ ). Read more about the contest
at http://www.assist-ministries.com/strategic/s0107004.htm
I have great faith in fools
-self confidence my friends call it.