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“My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.”
Jeff Bezos
“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.”
Joan Rivers
“The most courageous act is still to think independently; especially when death surrounds you on all sides.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.”
Bodhidharma
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
Carol Burnett
“I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
Ernest Shackleton
“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
Gilbert Chesterton
“Nothing is easier than fault finding.”
Og Mandino
“Loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ”
Denis Waitley
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx
“You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“Success often appears to result from a combination of preparation, opportunity, and favor. But behind most every great accomplishment there stands an almost unbelievable necessity, which is nothing but the ability to adapt.”
T.S. Eliot
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. ”
Seneca
“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”
Steve Jobs
“Fools read fast. Geniuses reread.”
Maxime Lagace
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
Buddha
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and got to work.”
Stephen King
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.”
Bruce Lee
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”
— Joseph Sugarman

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