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We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
- Experience
- Failure
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter XV.
- Character
You must not surrender. You may or may not get there, but just know that you’re qualified and hold on and hold out.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026Address to the Democratic National Convention (July 19, 1988)
- Motivation & Goals
Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
Robert Falcon Scott1868–1912Journal, 17 January 1912, quoted in Scott’s Last Expedition (1913) vol.1, ch.18
- Failure
A man’s success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter IX.
- Business
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Farewell statement, Warsaw, Poland, reported in The New York Times (2 July 1964)
- Motivation & Goals
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 63
- Motivation & Goals
- Responsibility
In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.
Edmund Hillary1919–2008Sir Edmund Hillary: King Of The World
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Statement of 1937 or earlier, as quoted in The New Speaker’s Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow
- Motivation & Goals
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That’s the way that the license works.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times” (1 June 2001) Chicago Sun Times
- Business
- Computers
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 152.In context
- Business
- Economics
After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Letters to Shareholders (1957—2012), 1989 Chairman’s Letter
- Business
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie1867–1934Letter to her brother Józef (18 March 1894), quoted in Eve Curie, Madame Curie (1937)
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Beautiful and Damned (1922)