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The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Larkin Smith (1809)
- Business
- Money
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue, § 3, tr. Thomas CommonIn context
- Motivation & Goals
- Philosophy
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 456.In context
- Business
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973What America Means to Me (1943), Ch. 10
- Failure
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James1843–1916“Greville Fane”, from The Real Thing: and Other Tales (1893)
- Clever Jabs
- Failure
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As “fail”.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Richelieu (1839)
- Failure
- Youth
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year’s nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you’re in business, buddy.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)
- Business
- Comedy
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War, Chapter IV · Disposition of the Army, Paragraph 4
- War & Peace
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919National Duties (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick) (1901)
- Courage
- Failure
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,⁠—
As, God be thanked! I do not.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Failure
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Motivation & Goals
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan (19 November 1938) p. 343
- History
- Motivation & Goals
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
- Business
- Economics
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
- Motivation & Goals