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A great many people think they are thinking when they really are rearranging their prejudices. (Edward R. Murrow)


What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. (Warren Buffett)

The more people who believe in something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who’s right often has to stand alone. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Investors may be quite willing to take the risk of being wrong in the company of others, while being much more reluctant to take the risk of being right alone. (John Maynard Keynes)

One dog barks because it sees something; a hundred dogs bark because they heard the first dog bark. (Chinese Proverb)

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success, or get rich in business, by being a conformist. (J. Paul Getty)

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde)

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts. (Albert Einstein)

The truly great investment idea can be explained in a short paragraph. (Warren Buffet)

If you can't explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)

Our young like luxury, are bad mannered, mock authority and disrespect the old. (Socrates)

Money isn’t everything, but it keeps us in touch with our children. (Forgotten)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work. (Thomas Edison)

Lazy people always mean to do something. (Vauvenargues)

A leader knows what to do ; a manager only knows how to do it. (Ken Adelman)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. (Dennis A. Peer)

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. (Calvin Coolidge)

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. (John Ruskin)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. (Bertrand Russell)

It is always the secure who are humble. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. (Oscar Levant)

The very shape of Egypt’s pyramids demonstrates that, even then, workers were already tending to work less and less. (Will Cuppy)

The only work that can be started from the top is digging a hole. (Anonymous)

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. (Peter Drucker)

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. (George Washington Carver)

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. (Thomas B. Macaulay)

There is no worse waste than to do well something that did not need doing in the first place. (Peter Drucker)

A committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. (Milton Berle)


Selected from http://www.tocqueville.com/article/show/234


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