“Simple Quotes”

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers”. – General Colin Powell

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them”. – Mother Teresa

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else”. - Tom Stoppard

“Every business is built on friendship”. - J. C. Penney.

“A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers”. - Ruth Bell Graham

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