Wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measure of success whatever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the thing we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells
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Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening: those which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished.
William Danforth
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When someone gives you advice, listen. Be friendly and respectful. But before you take their advice, consider how it has worked for them.
Wiley Pickering
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The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men.
William Danforth
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Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.
William Danforth
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I have found opportunities do not come to those who wait. They are captured by those who attack.
William Danforth
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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
William Danforth
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A millionaire in money is nothing compared to being a millionaire in friends, and everyone can be this, provided you keep these friends when you make them.
William Danforth
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Treat everybody alike, no matter from what station in life he comes. Be your own self with all people whether they be prince or pauper.
William Danforth
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I have observed that setting a goal makes no appeal to the mediocre. But to those fired with an ambition really to achieve greatly, setting a goal becomes a program that stirs the inner soul to action.
William Danforth
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Changes are always easier to make when things can't get much worse.
Bobby Bowden
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I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
Bobby Bowden
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Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
Bobby Bowden
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The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Bobby Bowden
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler
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Most of economics can be summarized in four words: "People respond to incentives." The rest is commentary.
Steven Landsburg
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The antidote to bad religion is good science.
Steven Landsburg
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Never, never, never let words come out of your mouth when your eyes are looking down.
James Humes
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Make a point, tell a story. Make another point, tell another story. Make yet another point and tell yet another story. That is the essence of public speaking.
Bill Gove
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The short words are best, and the short, old words are the best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk Jr.
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To overcome writer's block, get something - anything - down on paper. Don't wait for perfection to issue forth. Since the key to good writing is rewriting, give yourself something to edit.
James Freund
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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Mark Twain
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
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Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline.
Jim Rohn
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People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than be true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.
Bill Maher
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Don't measure busywork. Don't measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn't matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.
Larry Winget
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Organizations that refuse to accept poor performance at any level and that take the time to deal with every slip in service do well regardless of economic conditions. They thrive in spite of it all just because they expect, demand, and deliver excellence at every level.
Larry Winget
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Success is not a secret - it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.
Larry Winget
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If a person can't summarize his thoughts on success in business into a handful of bullet points, he doesn't know what he's talking about. And he's scamming you.
Larry Winget
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Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.
Larry Winget
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Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.
Larry Winget
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You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Larry Winget
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As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.
Larry Winget
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History does not tell you the probability of future financial things happening.
Warren Buffett
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The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
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What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
Albert Einstein
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
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You can't get rich keeping other people broke.
Larry Winget
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When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.
Anonymous
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What Americans need to realize is that it is impossible to increase government power without decreasing individual liberty. Government power, after all, means coercing people into doing some things and into refraining from doing other things. Every law says to the citizen, "You must" or "You shall not." Thus, liberty is lost incrementally, law by law by law.
Charley Reese
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The problem with freedom is that it is a two-sided coin. On one side is the liberty to make decisions; on the other is responsibility.
Charley Reese
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do -- redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.
Walter E. Williams
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I think you're out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume.
Warren Buffett
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I don't want to buy any stock where if they close the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow for five years I won't be happy owning it. I buy a farm and I don't get a quote on it for five years and I'm happy if the farm does ok. I buy an apartment house, don't get a quote on it for five years - I'm happy if the apartment house produces the returns that I expect. But people buy a stock and they look at the price the next morning and they decide if they're doing well or not doing well. It's crazy because they're buying a piece of a business.
Warren Buffett
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It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
Larry Winget
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When you love your job, you will work on yourself so you will be better for your job. You will love it enough to be good at it. If you aren't doing that, you don't love your job at all; you love going to that place where you hang out and they pay you for it.
Larry Winget
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Your future is up to you, not your employer. You have to get better in order for your circumstances to get better, and that must be done on your own time.
Larry Winget
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If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
Larry Winget
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The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.
Larry Winget
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While your friends want you to be successful, they don't want you to be more successful than they are.
Larry Winget
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What you think of me is none of my business.
Larry Winget
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Never build yourself up by tearing another down.
Larry Winget
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Cicero
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A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.
Larry Winget
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It is better to have a thief than a liar working for you, because at least you can watch a thief.
Larry Winget
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Regardless of what the motivational speakers tell you, attitude is not everything, attitude is only one thing; sooner or later you have to get off your butt and go to work.
Larry Winget
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When you fight with a pig, you both get dirty. But the pig likes it.
John Patrick Dolan
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Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.
Larry Winget
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Branding is nothing but knowing who you are and what you do that makes you stand out from everyone else, then communicating that through your marketing efforts. Branding is discovering your uniqueness and learning to exploit it.
Larry Winget
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I was convinced that in order to be successful I should do what everyone else was doing, but just be better at doing it. That is a clear formula for disaster in both my business and your business.
Larry Winget
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Abandoning who people think you are and becoming who you really are is a simple concept, but sometimes it is very hard to do. It isn't easy to give up others' ideas of who you are. Yet the key to success is to discover your uniqueness and to exploit it. Your authentic persona, either personal or corporate, is the key to your prosperity.
Larry Winget
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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
Dr. Robert Anthony
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If you can't explain what you do for a living in one sentence, then you don't know what you do for a living.
Larry Winget
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
George Patton
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Any company that requires constant supervision is not a well-trained, well-managed, well-led company.
Larry Winget
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Firing is not something you do to someone: firing is something you do for someone.
Larry Winget
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It's better to spend money on a really good attorney than a really bad employee. You're better off fighting them on the outside of your company than from inside your company.
Larry Winget
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If you can get along with everyone and everyone loves you, then you don't stand for much. A person who stands his ground for his principles and won't compromise his integrity is not loved by everyone.
Larry Winget
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Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
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The best advertising in the whole world is a satisfied customer with a big mouth.
Larry Winget
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Selling the customer is serving the customer. When you have a product that helps customers, you owe it to customers to sell it to them. To not offer customers something that can genuinely serve them well is a lack of good service.
Larry Winget
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People love to be sold and they hate to be hustled.
Larry Winget
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People want to buy from salespeople who are successful. Since we gather information first and primarily by sight and then form our opinions in the same way, it is important to look successful.
Larry Winget
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Ask more from your customers. Ask more from your employer. Ask more from your employees. But before you ask more from anyone else, first ask more from yourself.
Larry Winget
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The very top salespeople in any industry don't waste their time going to networking meetings. They take the same amount of time and use it to stay in front of customers.
Larry Winget
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Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
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The easiest customer to sell is the customer who is happy with what he just bought from you.
Larry Winget
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When someone says, "I don't really like working with others," hire her and give her an office with a door and a lot of work to do and then watch it get done.
Larry Winget
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Prove you are smarter than everyone by hiring people who are smarter than you.
Larry Winget
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Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong.
Larry Winget
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Training is expensive, but stupid employees are more expensive.
Larry Winget
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The customers have the money. Give them what they want, and they will share it with you.
Larry Winget
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Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
Larry Winget
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Don't worry too much about making the right decision. Just make the decision, and then make the decision right.
Larry Winget
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Pay your taxes first, yourself second, and everyone else after that.
Larry Winget
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If it starts to become complicated, then stop, regroup, and start over. Success is always simple.
Larry Winget
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Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.
Larry Winget
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Be trustworthy. Be the person who can keep a secret, isn't a gossip, and can be counted on in all situations.
Larry Winget
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Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to the service you provide.
Larry Winget
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Don't concern yourself with being liked. Instead, be respected.
Larry Winget
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Reward life skills and personal growth. Good people do a good job and bad people do a bad job.
Larry Winget
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Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
Larry Winget
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff-Gordon
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if He had ever made another class that He intended should do all the work and no eating, He would have made them with hands and no mouths.
Abraham Lincoln
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People change their lives when they want to, not because I want them to. No book ever changed a life and no speaker ever did, either. People have the power to change their own lives and no author or speaker should take the credit for it.
Larry Winget
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.
Warren Buffett
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perhaps I am not a good judge of these things, but in my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against a just government in defense of an unjust institution that makes slaves of men whom God made free is not the genuine article. The religion that reconciles men to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces is not the kind to get to heaven on.
Abraham Lincoln
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True patriotism is more holy than false piety.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus, by example, assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution - certainly would if such a right were a vital one.
Abraham Lincoln
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown
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Happiness is the natural experience of winning your own self-respect as well as the respect of others.
Denis Waitley
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In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Sir George Savile
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
Josiah Quincy
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When a management team with a reputation for brilliance joins a business with poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
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I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.
Warren Buffett
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The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.
Orison Marden
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
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If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. Nor should this lead us to a war on property, or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.
Horace Greeley
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If you want to be a champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.
Red Auerbach
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God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
Mother Teresa
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.
Walter E. Williams
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Markets work best when government provides public goods. These are not, as the name wrongly suggests, anything purchased with public money. Instead, public goods have two salient characteristics: 1)They can be provided just as cheaply for thousands or even millions of people as they can for a single individual and 2)It's difficult or impossible to prevent people who haven't paid for such goods from enjoying their benefits.
Charles Wheelan
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
Bart Conner
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Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
Jim Rohn
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We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.
Jim Rohn
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There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
Booker Washington
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Some people think they have bad luck when the real problem is that they took bad chances.
Thomas Sowell
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Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.
Thomas Sowell
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The biggest enemy of real equality is make-believe equality.
Thomas Sowell
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If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you do have control.
John Wooden
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No one overachieves. We're all underachievers to one degree or another.
John Wooden
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One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.
John Wooden
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One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.
John Wooden
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The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.
John Wooden
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You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.
John Wooden
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No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.
Walter E. Williams
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Huxley
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
Charles Spurgeon
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There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
Josh Billings
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The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it and put it into action –fast.
Jack Welch
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Humility is the quality that will enable you and others to enjoy your success.
Charlie Tremendous Jones
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. MacDonald
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The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
Blaise Pascal
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It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca
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You can't run a popularity contest and be successful.
Ara Parseghian
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In game adjustments are the most overrated thing in coaching.
Bobby Knight
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Kids shouldn't play for coaches. They should play to play together and to have fun.
Mike Krzyzewski
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You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
Mike Krzyzewski
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You can do pretty dumb things when you've got a big checkbook.
Warren Buffett
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
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If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.
James Madison
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Thomas Jefferson
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Women don't want to hear what men think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby
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Minimum or maximum prices are one of the most effective ways to encourage people to indulge their preferences, be they racial or any other preference. In general, any kind of economic regulation that restricts peaceable, voluntary exchange has the capacity to lower the costs of preference indulgence. Decent people should be against such regulations.
Walter E. Williams
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If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
Bill Walsh
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The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
Bill Walsh
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
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You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
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Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
Yogi Berra
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A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
Mike Krzyzewski
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
Mike Krzyzewski
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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
Mike Krzyzewski
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader - and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion.
Mike Krzyzewski
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Cicero
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Theodor Geisel
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For the most part, income is a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity.
Walter E. Williams
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There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.
Peter Lynch
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The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
Peter Lynch
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
Peter Lynch
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
Peter Lynch
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There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or, worse, to buy more of it, when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
Peter Lynch
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Stock picking can't be reduced to a simple formula or a recipe that guarantees success if strictly adhered to.
Peter Lynch
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A person infatuated with measurement, who has his head stuck in the sand of the balance sheets, is not likely to succeed.
Peter Lynch
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
Peter Lynch
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Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.
Peter Lynch
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Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.
Peter Lynch
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
Peter Lynch
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Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.
Peter Lynch
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You have to know what you own, and why you own it. "This baby is a cinch to go up!" doesn't count.
Peter Lynch
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Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
Peter Lynch
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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
Peter Lynch
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A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.
Peter Lynch
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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and stock mutual funds altogether.
Peter Lynch
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There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignore the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.
Peter Lynch
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If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.
Peter Lynch
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
Peter Lynch
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In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
Peter Lynch
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One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.
Walter E. Williams
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Government officials, if given power to control us, soon become zealots.
Walter E. Williams
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You try to be greedy when others are fearful and you try to be very fearful when others are greedy.
Warren Buffett
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The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.
Warren Buffett
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Rule number one: never lose money. Rule number two: never forget rule number one.
Warren Buffett
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The very term "value investing" is redundant. What is investing if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).
Warren Buffett
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All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
Charlie Munger
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We select our marketable equity securities in much the way we would evaluate a business for acquisition in its entirety. We want businesses to be one (a) that we can understand; (b) with favorable long-term prospects; (c) operated by honest and competent people; and (d) available at a very attractive price.
Warren Buffett
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Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.
Peter Lynch
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Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother Teresa
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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
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