If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
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If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.
I will either find a way or make one.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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