we start all of our meetings... with prayer

We start all of our meetings, including shareholders meetings and directors meetings, with prayer. If you start meetings with prayer, the meetings are more fruitful and productive – you reach decisions that are more likely to help everybody concerned. There is less controversy when you begin with prayer. Or, as I like to say, “Prayer helps you to think more clearly” … Everything you do following such a prayer is likely to be more successful. Your mind is not twisted by conflicts. You’re less likely to disagree with your associates or do something you’ll regret next year. So your decision-making may be improved if you try to bring yourself into contact with the Creator, into harmony with His purposes.


Sir John Templeton, Sir John Templeton: From Wall Street to Humility Theology by Robert L. Herrmann (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 1998) p.142 as quoted in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.427