Perspective Quotes
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.
If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I'm about to do today? And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.
Experts are clueless.
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you arethe one who gets burned.
We think too much and feel too little.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
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