Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
James Allen, As A Man Thinketh
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
If what you are working on is not important, and it’s not likely to lead to important things, why are you working on it?
Richard Hamming
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Wealth is what you don’t spend.
Morgan Housel
Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn’t have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. “When you’re the janitor,” Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, “reasons matter.” He continues: “Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.” That “Rubicon,” he has said, “is crossed when you become a VP.
Steve Jobs, from Inside Apple, by Adam Lashinsky
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Make a list of all the things you hate doing, and stop doing them.
Tom Peters
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