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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Misalliance (1910), Preface
- Business
- Poetry
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose,⁠—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIn context
- Motivation & Goals
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Letter IIIIn context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIn context
- Emotion
- Failure
To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat⁠—and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter IIn context
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals
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
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
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter IIIn context
- Business
- Economics
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Business
- Work
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII (4 of 5)In context
- Business
- Government
They wrote me off, I ain’t write back though.
GSGeno Smithborn 1990During first post-game interview after being named Seahawks’ starter (September 12, 2022).
- Motivation & Goals
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Motivation & Goals
Who seeks shall find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by CreonIn context
- Motivation & Goals
To err is common
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by TeiresiasIn context
- Failure
- Wisdom
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Sorosborn 1930Soros on Soros (1995)
- Failure