Quotes

"Know thyself."

"Remember you'll die."

"NO MAN, NO PROBLEM"

"Instead of asking "what problem should I solve?" ask "what problem do I wish someone else would solve for me?""

"The only thing people love more than talking about themselves is hearing about themselves."

"Now is the time for action. Fortune favors the brave! He who dares nothing wins nothing."

"If you have two choices, and one is harder, choose the harder."

"Never pray or ask for what you can get yourself."

"What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say."

"When in doubt, check your intentions."

"Never leave that till tomorrow that which you can do today."

"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."

"Reality is negotiable."

"The purpose of Entrepreneurship is Freedom, not money."

"Salary is the drug they give you to make you forget your dreams."

"Your job is: To do your job really well. To think everyday, how you are going to be better than you were yesterday."

"Human beings decide emotionally and justify logically."

"Man has two masters in this world: and they are: Pain and Fear."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

"There are only two sufficient things to know about business: build something useful and make more than you spend. I would also add that best business is when you solve other people's problems."

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

"Luck favors the prepared mind."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"If you have to do something deemed wrong, at least do it right."

"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?"

"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new."

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"Do not make a promise you cannot keep."

"If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough."

"If you can't change humanity, reshape its reality."

"Truth tellers get run out of the city."

"Never have a favorite weapon."

"The world is a cesspool of crime, corruption and poverty. Where there isn't a war, there's greed. Where there isn't greed, there's hunger."

"Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious."

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

"It is often said that "he is wise he who can see things coming." Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away."

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Purpose is the essence of life."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you."

"Strong people go for help. Ask for assistance. Gnashing your teeth in the dark will not get you extra brownie points. It is a sign of strength to ask for assistance and people will respect you for it."

"Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go."

"The rest of one's life can only be conquered by first subduing one day."

"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silence."

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."

"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."

"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise."

"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch."

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

"Don't try to saw sawdust. I say, let the dead bury their dead."

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected."

"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious and ambitious."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new or different."

"Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish. It's necessary."

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Silence is better than unmeaning words."

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

"No one is free who has not obtained an empire for himself."

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself."

"The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no" — are those which require the most thought."

"Above all things, reverence yourself."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"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."

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."

"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

"Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife."

"Being American or European doesn't make it correct. There's only right or wrong; and we decide what that is as well."

"People always know exactly what they want, even if they are not aware of it."

"Be like a postage stamp — stick to one thing until you get there."

"Every great change starts like falling dominoes."

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world."

"There can only be one most important thing. Many things may be important, but only one can be the most important."

"We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal."

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

"Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then they shape us."

"Energy and persistence conquer everything."

"We are only as strong as our weakest link."

"Never make a decision while angry. Never make a promise while happy."

"It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it."

"The business of governance is business."

"There is no device known to mankind that prevents people from being idiots."

"Any mistake that can be made will be made, and at the worst possible moment."

"Love is the death of duty."

"The biggest risk is taking no risk."

"Do it or watch it get done."

"Profit is not a sufficient motivation for business endeavors. That is just greed."

"You'll sleep soundly when you do the right thing."

"The best books are not those that inform us with new ideas and thoughts, but rather, those which help us reaffirm what we suspected was true all along."