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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

King Solomon (1030 BC-922 BC)
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Alexander the Great (356 BC-323 BC)
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Confucius (551 BC-478 BC)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and doing the exact opposite.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836)
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566)
Arrived too late. Act already done.

Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
By constant dripping, water hollows out a stone.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Warren Buffett (1930-present)
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)
The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853—1890)
Conscience is a man's compass.

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
We think too much and feel too little.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

George Washington (1732-1799)
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

George Soros (1930-present)
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Hannibal (247 BC-183 BC)
We either find a way, or we will make one.

George Patton (1885-1945)
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

John Milton (1608-1674)
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Lee Iacocca (1924-present)
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

William Wrigley, Jr. (1861-1932)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Michael Dell (1965-present)
People consume information better with their eyes.

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250)
The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Marlon Brando (1924-2004)
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Lack of money is the root of all evil.

William Blake (1757-1827)
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Sir Richard Branson (1950-present)
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Alfred Sloan (1875-1966)
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Alan Greenspan (1926-present)
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Bill Gates (1955-present)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Pythagoras (582 BC-497 BC)
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Nikola Tesla (1857-1943)
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Charles Schwab (1937–present)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Jack London (1876-1916)
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)
Wisdom begins with a wonder.

Ted Turner (1938-present)
The mind is just another muscle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Voltaire (1694-1778)
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Jack Welch (1935-present)
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Galileo (1564-1642)
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC)
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Peter Lynch (1944-present)
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913)
The market will fluctuate.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Andrew Grove (1936-present)
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Lewis Carroll (1932-1898)
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
There is eloquence in true enthusiasm. Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC)
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Robert Collier (1885-1950)
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Walt Disney (1901-1966)
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Plato (429 BC-347 BC)
Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.

Henry James (1843-1916)
Ideas are, in truth, force.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A man said to the Universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948)
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Seneca (5 BC-65 AD)
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
Experience by itself is not science.

Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
To understand is to perceive patterns.

Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC)
Men willingly believe what they wish.

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Louis Gerstner (1942-present)
I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too.

Bill Clinton (1946-present)
Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800)
A hard training makes an easy combat.

Homer (800 BC-700 BC)
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
He that is rich is wise.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

John Adams (1735-1826)
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Steven Spielberg (1946-present)
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Sam Walton (1918-1992)
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
All happiness depends on courage and work.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Genius sees the answer before the question.

James Cook (1728-1779)
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Peter The Great (1672-1725)
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A person hears only what they understand.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.

Sir John Tempelton (1912-present)
Work at being a humble person.

Attila the Hun (406-453)
Superficial goals lead to superficial results.

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Avicenna - in Arabic Ibn Sina (980-1037)
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
What is reasonable is true, and what is true is reasonable.

Jesus Christ (8–2 BC-29–36 AD)
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Although the world is not perfect, it is yet the best that is possible.

Theophrastus (372 BC—287 BC)
Time is the most valuable thing one can spend.

Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Buddha (563 BC-483 BC)
He is able who thinks he is able.

Michelangelo (1475—1564)
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Genghis Khan (1162—1227)
The merit of an action lies in finishing it to the end.

Sigmund Freud (1856—1939)
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Charles W. Eliot (1834—1926)
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Never confuse motion with action.

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
Status quo, you know, that's Latin for "the mess we're in".

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Sir Adrian Cadbury (1929-present)
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

James Madison (1751-1836)
Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
The future starts today, not tomorrow.