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    Linus Pauling
    “The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
    ― Linus Pauling
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    Warren Buffett
    “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: employees, integrity, morality
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    Warren Buffett
    “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: business
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    Warren Buffett
    “Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: honesty
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    Warren Buffett
    “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: planning
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    Warren Buffett
    “The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, financial-advice
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    Warren Buffett
    “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: fear, greed, investment-advice
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    Warren Buffett
    “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: business, habits, hare, inspirational-life, reading, think, thinking, tortoise, warren-buffet
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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
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    Warren Buffett
    “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: class-struggle, class-warfare, economics, economics-greed, economics-money, inequality, occupy-wall-street, politics, poor, rich, the-one-percent
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    Warren Buffett
    “Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: education, risk
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    Warren Buffett
    “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Warren Buffett
    “There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Warren Buffett
    “Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: finance, money
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    Warren Buffett
    “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
    ― Warren Buffet
    tags: boats, warren-buffet
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
    tags: american-presidents, inaugural-address, us-presidents
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Charles T. Munger
    “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
    ― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
    tags: reading-books, reading-habits, wisdom-of-winners
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
    ― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: military, social-change, war
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    Muhammad Yunus
    “If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.”
    ― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    tags: poor, poverty, poverty-alleviation, social-change
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    Muhammad Yunus
    “..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.”
    ― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    tags: advocacy, complication, poverty-alleviation, simplicity, social-change
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to work to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
    tags: social-change, time
    57 likes



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