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“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'”
Warren Buffett
“Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
Abdul Kalam
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If God dropped acid, would he see people?”
Steven Wright
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Your edge is where you stop short, or where you compromise your fullest gift, and, instead, cater to your fears.”
David Deida
“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”
H. L. Mencken
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.”
Becoming Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Thomas Aquinas
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
Maya Angelou
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
Will Rogers
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
Alfred Tennyson
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.”
Stephen Hawking
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.”
Mitch Hedberg