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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas Edison”
― Greg Crabtree, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
― Steve Jobs

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind