40 Quotes by Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I would say to you, have faith in yourself - believe in what you are doing, and, most important, be a person of integrity. It is totally up to you, and no one else, how your life evolves.

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.

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.

I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.

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.

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.

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.

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.