"All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy"
- Spike Milligan
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
- Samuel Butler
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Clear your mind of can't"
- Samuel Johnson
"Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn't drive them. Ambition and values drive them"
- Sumantra Ghoshal
"Competent people are the most resistant to change"
- Seth Godin
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by decending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
- St Augustine
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out"
- Stephen R. Covey
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Failure is impossible"
- Susan B. Anthony
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible"
- Stuart Chase
"Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy"
- Sonia Johnson
"Getting ahead in a difficult position requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
- Sophia Loren
"Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war"
- Seneca
"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
- Stephen R Covey
"Independence is happines"
- Susan B. Anthony
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"
- Steve Jobs
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca
"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things"
- Steven Covey
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall"
- Stephen R. Covey
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less"
- Susan B. Anthony
"Nothing great was ever done without much enduring"
- St Catherine of Siena
"Once you label me, you negate me"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized"
- Sun Tzu
"Our aspirations are our possibilities"
- Samuel Johnson
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them"
- Stephen Covey
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations"
- Steve Jobs
"Success is 99% failure"
- Soichiro Honda
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before his battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand"
- Sun Tzu
"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence"
- Sue Atchley Ebaugh
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be"
- Socrates
"The harder I worked, the luckier I got"
- Sid Friedman
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"The lash may force men to physical labor; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity"
- Sholem Ash
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain"
- Susan B. Anthony
"The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service"
- Sol Roth
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"We have a plan, therefore nothing can go wrong"
- Spike Milligan
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers"
- Seneca
"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
- Sophocles
"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing ... and when you meet him, he will win"
- Senator Bill Bradley
"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds."
- Sally Kempton
"You have to create tension between reality and aspiration"
- Sumantra Ghoshal
"You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist"
- Seth Godin

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