You are never given a wish without the power to make
it true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
People who don't
respect money don't have any.
— J. Paul Getty, Billionaire Oil
Tycoon
Money will appear when you are doing the right thing
in your life.
— Michael Phillips
It's lonely at the top.
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are
convinced they are incapable of achieving great
things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level
of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic"
goals, paradoxically making them the most
time-consuming and energy
consuming. It is easier to
raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is
easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar
than the five 8s.
— Timothy
Ferriss
To be yourself in a world that is doing its best,
day and night to make you like everybody else — is
to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
If
you believe it can't be done, at least don't get in
the way of the person who is doing it.
— Unknown wise
person
Every prosperous person who does not work has a
creative scheme that does.
— John Otway
Any powerful idea is
absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we
choose to use it.
— Richard Bach
We
know that the nature of genius is to provide
idiots with ideas
twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
The law
of floatation was not discovered by contemplating
the sinking of things.
— Thomas Troward
If you believe that happiness can
be bought, then why don't you try selling some of
yours?
— from Career Success Without a Real
Job
Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy
thinking and indiscriminate actions.
— Timothy Ferris
You are what you do.
If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are
you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
— Bob Black
A
goal should scare you a little and excite you a
lot.
— Joe Vitale
If
you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too
much space.
— Unknown wise person
Give me a stock clerk with a goal
and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give
me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock
clerk.
— J. C. Penny
1001 Best Things Ever Said about Work (and
the Workplace)
It
isn't much of a book of quotations if I'm not in
it.
— Yours
Truly (after being given a
Book of Quotations for my birthday)
Good thoughts are no better than
good dreams, unless they be executed
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't flaunt your success, but
don't apologize for it either.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No
matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful,
when you die the size of your funeral will still
pretty much depend on the weather.
— Michael Pritchard
I cannot give you the formula for
success, but I can give you the formula for failure
— which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert B. Swope
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished
writing.
— Sylvia Plath
I don't have a lot of respect for talent.
Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that
counts.
— Martin Ritt
If your daily life seems poor, do
not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you
are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The greater the fool the better the dancer.
— Theodore Hook
Creativity varies
inversely with the number of cooks involved in the
broth.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
When a
true genius appears in the world, you will know
him by this sign, that all the dunces are in
confederacy against him.
— Jonathan
Swift
Fashion is a form of ugliness so
intolerable that we have to alter it every six
months.
— Oscar Wilde
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Said about Retirement
Love is a state of temporary
psychosis.
— Freud
The
fishing is best where the fewest go and the
collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for
people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for
base hits.
— Timothy Ferriss
The greatest danger for most of us
is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo
Because a thing seems
difficult for you, do not think it impossible for
anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from
wise men.
— Cato
If
fifty million people say [or do] a foolish
thing, it is still a foolish thing.
— Anotole France
In Paris they simply stared when I
spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their own
language.
— Mark Twain
Nothing is ever accomplished by a
reasonable man.
— American proverb
The
radical invents the views. When he has worn them
out, the conservative adopts them.
— Mark Twain
Money will buy you a bed but not a good
night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion
but not a friend.
— Zig Ziglar
If an idea does not appear
bizarre, there is no hope for it.
— Niels Bohr
Most
people can tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever
people can do it in five. Sensible people never go
to lectures at all.
— Stephen Leacock
He charged nothing for his
preaching and it was worth it too.
— Mark Twain
I often quote myself. This adds
spice to my conversations.
— George Bernard Shaw
Take
your life in your own hands, and what happens? A
terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
