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#1

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
― Voltaire

tags: dependence, inequality

#2

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
― Voltaire

tags: dwell, harm, misfortune

113 likes

#3

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Voltaire

132 likes

#4

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

1937 likes

#5

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: advice, apple, business, creativity, ileadership, leadership, mac, macintosh

866 likes

#6

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

tags: business, strategy

1450 likes

#7

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: business, career, inspirational, self-help, self-help-women, women

685 likes

#8

“There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

tags: business, manhattan, shopaholic

220 likes

#9

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game

tags: business

198 likes

#10

“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”
― Lillian Cauldwell

tags: business, confident, success, writing

63 likes

#11

“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: business

67 likes

#12

“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
― Ted Turner

tags: business, ted-turner

56 likes

#13

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
― Kenneth Boulding

tags: business, economics

68 likes

#14

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: business

88 likes

#15

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: business, decision-making, leadership

216 likes

#16

“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”
― Adam Smith

66 likes

#17

“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

65 likes

#18

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3

40 likes

#19

“We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

22 likes

#20

“The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

8 likes

#21

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

10850 likes

#22

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5816 likes

#23

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

2096 likes

#24

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

819 likes

#25

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: freedom, responsibility

152 likes

#26

“Convictions are prisons.”
― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ

tags: convictions, inspirational

97 likes

#27

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
― Frederick Nietzsche

91 likes

#28

“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance.”
― Ayn Rand

5 likes

#29

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: jasmine, new-orleans, vampires

146 likes

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