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Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. Ayn Rand
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Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity. Daniel H. Pink
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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire Charles Bukowski
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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Thomas Huxley
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These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime. Robert Mitchum
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Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. Robert Ballard
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Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose. Ricky Hatton
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I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on.
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What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.
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I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
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The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
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There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. Michael Lewis
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
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Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
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I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac. Ben Schott
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Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither. Jim Gaffigan
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Everybody take out your book on financial empowerment. That's why we're here.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath. Robert Kiyosaki
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It does not take money to make money.
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If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
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We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.
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Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
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The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
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I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
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To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.