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- Ayrton Senna
This is my favorite: "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca
I've always liked "if you don't know where you're going any road will take you there" which is from Lewis Carroll. Interesting to see that he was predated in his sentiments by such a long time
We have one of those "quotes of the day" at the company intranet, so I see a lot of interesting ones. Some good ones are "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it" attributed to Thomas Jefferson One that resonates with me is this one by Cato: "I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the r…
"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." (I used not to know when to shut up or stop defying authority, and my career paid for it) Oh, that is one problem I have... I ALWAYS tell people the truth. If I think what they're saying is bullshit, I tell them that, without sugarcoating it. It has got me into trouble a few…
"Give an Entrepreneur a Napkin & An Idea & he’ll turn it into a Million Bucks. Give it to Anyone Else & He’ll wipe his face with it."
And 29 others from the source i compiled..
http://lab.plorez.com/30-entrepreneurship-quotes-that-will-m...
-Viktor Frankl
It's rare that something immediately changes my outlook on life, but this quote did it. I was hesitant to read "Man's Search For Meaning" thinking it to be a pithy self-help book. I was wrong. Frankl's book helped me through what I hope to be the most difficult period of my life.
I really like these two from Randy Pausch. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -Viktor Frankl It's rare that somet…