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To hell with more. I want better.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1979)
- Motivation & Goals
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy⁠—and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You’ll make the sofa in the end.
PBPam Brown
- Failure
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
MBMerry Browne
- Failure
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning1812–1889Andrea del Sarto (1855), Men and Women (1855), “Andrea del Sarto”, line 98.In context
- Motivation & Goals
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.
Robert Browning1812–1889Rabbi ben Ezra (1864), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Rabbi Ben Ezra.In context
- Motivation & Goals
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
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925“America’s Mission”, speech delivered by the leader of the Democratic Party at the Washington Day banquet given by the Virginia Democratic Association at Washington, D.C., (22 February 1899), as published in The Book of Public Speaking (Vol. 2)
- Motivation & Goals
You cannot judge a man’s life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925“The Law and the Gospel” (1896)
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
He is able who thinks he is able.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
- Motivation & Goals
Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCAnguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses), 5.177: Vanijja Sutta, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2001)
- Business
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
We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.
Warren Buffettborn 19301998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, quoted in Wait: The Art and Science of Delay (2012) by Frank Partnoy, p. 177
- Business
In fact, when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Letters to Shareholders (1957—2012), 1988 Chairman’s Letter
- Business
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into.
Warren Buffettborn 1930To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
- Luck