The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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