You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
—Common Proverb
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations—always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace ‘if I can, I hope, maybe’ with ‘I can, I will, I must.’
—Mary Kay Ash (American Entrepreneur)
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
—Charlie Munger
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
Lend only that which you can afford to lose.
—Common Proverb
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
—Joseph Joubert (French Essayist)
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
—John W. Gardner (American Government Official)
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
—William Feather (American Publisher)
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
—Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Novelist)
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
—John Locke (English Philosopher)
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
—William Penn (American Entrepreneur)
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)
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