"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
- Florence Nightingale
"The main difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time."
- Kiyosaki
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
- Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple
Risk taking
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
- Mark Twain
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- John Elliot
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
- St. Augustine
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
- Henry Ford
"No matter how rich you are, you want a deal."
- Mark Suster, to entrepreneurs in a Stanford class on approaching investors
Priorities
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
- Pablo Picasso
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."
- Warren Buffet
Product Design
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
- Robert Wilensky
Satisfaction and happiness
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Albert Einstein
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer
"Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind."
- Eric Hoffer
Management
"After you plant a seed in the ground, you don’t dig it up every week to see how it is doing."
- William Coyne, head of R&D at 3M, on micro-management
Leadership and inspiration
"When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you achieve it."
- The Alchemist
"There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
- US President Ronald Reagan
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
- Mathematician and US Admiral Grace Hopper
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
- Steven Wright, Comedian
"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up."
- Steven Wright, Comedian
"Half the people you know are below average."
- Steven Wright, Comedian
"42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot."
- Steven Wright, Comedian
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
- US President Harry Truman
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