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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything,” a journalist observed, “tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs to him, rather in solid substance than in showy display.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheet a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“Here's what the death knell for the personal computer will sound like: Mainly I use my phone/paid, but I still use my PC to write long e-mails and documents. Most people aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed”
― Paul G Allen, Idea Man

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

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

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”
― Jim Rohn

“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”
― Jim Rohn

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
― Albert Einstein

“During this time I learned the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“I tested the brackets by hitting them with rocks. This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“product excellence is now paramount to business success—not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“In order to “win a man to your cause,” Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, “the great high road to his reason.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“It was Andrew Jackson’s motto, he reminded, that “if you temporize, you are lost.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune