The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen
to you if you can make a read more

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen
to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No
Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!".

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be read more

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

The sharp employ the sharp.

The sharp employ the sharp.