Quotation Collection

The fundamental principle of human action, the law that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion. Henry George

• desire
• effort
• work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. Colleen Barrett

• fun
• work

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Alva Edison

• work
• results

Plan your work and work your plan. Anonymous

• work
• planning

You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse. Bob Proctor

• love
• money

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. Maya Angelou

• passion
• enthusiasm

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain

• simplicity

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin

• job

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. William James

• persistence

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. Sharon Bower

• manners

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. Edward Hoch

• gossip

Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon. Anonymous

• sales
• funny

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino

• relationships
• love

I hate to hear about "partnerships" between government and business, or between government and other organizations. When there is a partnership between an ant and an elephant, who do you suppose makes the decisions? Thomas Sowell

• government

Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. Ayn Rand

• freedom
• capitalism

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• parents
• children

If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way. Frank Clark

• parents
• children

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso

• art
• imagination
• children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

• patience
• funny
• children

When a child asks to join the party, let him. When he wants to help clean the garage, find a way to include him. Of course, not every project or adult gathering is appropriate for every child. My observation is that the more wholesome an adult’s lifestyle, the fewer gatherings are off-limits to children. Clancy Cross

• children

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

• children

The measure of a man's education is that he takes pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Barzun

• education

Every decision you make — every decision — is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. Neale Walsch

• character
• purpose

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand

• free enterprise

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

• confidence
• thought

The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. Woody Hayes

• sports
• victory
• time management

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk

• death
• legacy

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare. Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

• comfort

All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations. Robert White

• purpose
• comfort
• limitations
• goals

We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t. Frank Clark

• comfort
• self improvement

The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith

• economics

Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. Warren Buffett

• investing