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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Presence is more than just being there.
The best vision is insight.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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