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“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.”
― Roger Von Oech, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
― John Philpot Curran

“People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you’ll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don’t just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it’s really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That’s the way the government does things. They do something really big that’s really bad, and they think, Well, we’ll make it better, and then it never gets better”.

Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013”
― Paul Graham

“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue”
― Jeff Bezos

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”
― Boris Pasternak

“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad”
― Joseph Roux

“I don't actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.”
― Naval Ravikant

“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both”
― Milton Friedman

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Rohn

“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
― Paul Graham

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
― Ayn Rand

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
― Bill Gates

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead