Nagesh Belludi

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (English Writer, Politician)

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
—Yann Martel (Canadian Novelist)

Successful careers are those that realize in the man the dreams of the child.
—Wallace Stevens (American Poet)

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
—Donna Tartt (American Novelist)

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
—Michelangelo (Italian Painter)

Pain was their body’s way of telling them that they’d pushed themselves to their limits—which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
—Richard Marcinko (American Navy Officer)

Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.
—Stephen Batchelor (British Buddhist Author, Teacher)

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
—William Wrigley, Jr. (American Businessman)

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
—Sean Connery (Scottish Actor)

The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival’s failure without triumph.
—John Aikin (British Educator)

Base-minded they that lack intelligence; for God himself for wisdom most is praised, and men to God thereby are highest raised.
—Edmund Spenser (English Poet)

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (French Poet, Politician, Historian)

There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
—Sheryl Sandberg (American Executive, Author)

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
—John Fletcher (English Dramatist)

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
—Anne Frank (German Holocaust Victim)

Most footprints on the sands of time were made with work shoes.
—Caroline Schoeder (American Aphorist)

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Anglo-Irish Novelist, Poet)

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
—Horace Mann (American Educator)

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often.”
—Bernard Berenson (American Art Critic)

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
—Cardinal Richelieu (French Cardinal, Statemesan)

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.
—Plutarch (Greek Biographer)

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)

Too many cousins ruin the shopkeeper.
—Jamaican Proverb