Quotation Collection

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money. Tim O'Reilly

• money

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Kelland

• children
• parents

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

• children

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore

• home

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer

• manners

There are two ways to build a successful company. One is to work very, very hard to convince customers to pay high margins. The other is to work very, very hard to be able to afford to offer customers low margins. They both work. Jeff Bezos

• business

I'm not dopey enough to tie up my whole life in the future because of some promise I made in the past—under different circumstances. Richard Feynman

• commitment

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[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. Richard Feynman

• wealth
• money
• contentment

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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire. Richard Feynman

• wealth
• money
• contentment

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I find it psychologically very distasteful to judge people's "merit." So I cannot participate in the main activity of selecting people for membership. To be a member of a group, of which an important activity is to choose others deemed worthy of membership in that self-esteemed group, bothers me. Richard Feynman

• associates
• arrogance

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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into. Richard Feynman

• occupation
• enthusiasm
• job

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[E]xperiment and observation is the sole and ultimate judge of the truth of an idea. Richard Feynman

• truth
• science

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I never believed that people who used big words and very fancy speech were especially smart or good. I think it is important only to express clearly what you want to say. Richard Feynman

• oratory
• candor
• speech

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A book should be only an assistance to a good teacher, and not a dictator. Richard Feynman

• teachers
• education

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Work hard to find something that fascinates you. When you find it you will know your lifework. A man may be digging a ditch for someone else, or because he is forced to, or is stupid—such a man is "toolish"—but another working even harder may not be recognized as different by the bystanders—but he may be digging for treasure. So dig for treasure and when you find it you will know what to do. Richard Feynman

• occupation
• enthusiasm

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Learn by trying to understand simple things in terms of other ideas—always honestly and directly. What keeps the clouds up, why can't I see stars in the daytime, why do colors appear on oily water, what makes the lines on the surface of water being poured from a pitcher, why does a hanging lamp swing back and forth—and all the innumerable little things you see all around you. Then when you have learned to explain simpler things, so you have learned what an explanation really is, you can then go on to more subtle questions. Richard Feynman

• understanding
• science

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It is wonderful, if you can find something you love to do in your youth which is big enough to sustain your interest through all your adult life. Because, whatever it is, if you do it well enough (and you will, if you truly love it) people will pay you to do what you want to do anyway. Richard Feynman

• occupation
• job
• enthusiasm

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The real fun of life is this perpetual testing to realize how far out you can go with any potentialities. Richard Feynman

• self improvement

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Don't think of what "you want to be," but what you "want to do." Richard Feynman

• occupation
• job

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Perhaps the most underused question in job selection is, "Do I want to be more like the people I'll be working with?" Dan and Chip Heath

• job
• associates
• occupation

If you were to die right now, today, what would you be proud of? Ted Coiné

• legacy

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