Quotation Collection

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery

• dreams

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein

• education

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Bo Bennett

• sales

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis

• possibility
• initiative

You feel better about yourself whenever you push yourself to do your best. You increase your self-esteem whenever you go beyond the point where the average person would normally quit. Brian Tracy

• self esteem
• discipline
• persistence

You have deep within you an "urge to completion," or what is often referred to as a "compulsion to closure." This means that you actually feel happier and more powerful when you start and complete a task of any kind. Brian Tracy

• achievement
• accomplishment

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin

• free speech

As a general rule, wherever you find a large group of people who are baffled by complexity, you will find a smaller group of people making a good living screwing them. Scott Adams

• funny

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• progress

Capitalism does not exist without capital, and debt is not, has never been and will never be a form of capital. Ron Paul

• capitalism
• economics
• debt

This is the source.

You have to be before you can do, and you have to do before you can have. Zig Ziglar

• self improvement
• service

Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human “brain” with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human “heart” with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

• religion
• compassion

When you work on your most important tasks at a high and continuous level of activity, you can actually enter into an amazing mental state called "flow." Almost everyone has experienced this at some time. Really successful people are those who get themselves into this state far more often than average. Brian Tracy

• focus
• work

The more you discipline yourself to persist on a major task, the more you like and respect yourself, and the higher is your self-esteem. Brian Tracy

• discipline
• self esteem

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority. George W. Bush

• nonsense
• funny

The true strength of America happens when a neighbor loves a neighbor just like they'd like to be loved themselves. George W. Bush

• nonsense
• funny

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it. George W. Bush

• funny
• nonsense

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself. George W. Bush

• funny
• nonsense

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams

• principle
• politics

Book value is an accounting concept, recording the accumulated financial input from both contributed capital and retained earnings. Intrinsic business value is an economic concept, estimating future cash output discounted to present value. Book value tells you what has been put in; intrinsic business value estimates what can be taken out. Warren Buffett

• investing

The primary test of managerial economic performance is the achievement of a high earnings rate on equity capital employed (without undue leverage, accounting gimmickry, etc.) and not the achievement of consistent gains in earnings per share. Warren Buffett

• management
• business

We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own the assets. Warren Buffett

• management
• business

When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winner’s circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor. Pat Riley

• fortune
• competition

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? Henry David Thoreau

• reason
• science