There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)
The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be him self.
—Benjamin Graham (American Investor)
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
All power is from within and is therefore under our own control.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)
Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
—Aeschylus (Greek Playwright)
You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.
—Kenneth H. Olsen (American Engineer, Business Executive)
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
—Hannah Arendt (German-American Political Theorist)
Use thy best vase today, for tomorrow it may, perchance, be broken.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
—William Feather (American Author, Publisher)
Little-minded people’s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician, Essayist)
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
—Andrew Grove (Hungarian-born American Businessperson)
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It’s like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Anglo-Irish Novelist, Poet)
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
—Royal Little (American Businessman)
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
—Christopher Hitchens (Anglo-American Social Critic)