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
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
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
