Insightful Quotes - Page 18

• You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Relationship, Success

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• You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Compassion, Practice

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• The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

  Richard DeVos

  God, Earth, Green

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• A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Order

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• [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Creativity, Technology

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• Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
  Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.

  Mos Def

  Mother, Baby, Rap

  Song: Mathematics

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• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Innovation, Copying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.220, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Investing Money

  "Warren Buffett hauled before US financial crisis commission" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

  Marian Anderson

  Friendship, Good Friend, Ifs

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• 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.

  William Arthur Ward

  Friendship, Loyalty, Blessed

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• Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Forgiveness, Wise, Giving Up

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 29, 2011

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• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

  Jay-Z

  Business, Men, Entrepreneur

  Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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• Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspirational, Success, Helping

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• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Heroes and Hero-Worship". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

  Liz Phair

  Reading, Want, Site

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Perfect, Despair

  Haruki Murakami (1987). “風の歌を聴け”

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• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Bigs, Shrinks

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Worst Enemy, Experience

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happy, Work, Men

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• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.14, St. Martin's Press

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

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