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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; VIII
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI, § 6.20
- Motivation & Goals
- Virtue
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI
- Virtue
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius551–479 BCThe Doctrine of the Mean
- Failure
- Responsibility
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. I
- Motivation & Goals
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1
- Business
- Money
When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.
Tim Cookborn 1960Apple shareholder meeting (28 February 2014), as reported by The Mac Observer
- Business
I don’t think business should only deal in commercial things. Business, to me, is nothing more than a collection of people. If people have values, then companies should.
Tim Cookborn 1960CNBC: “Apple’s Tim Cook shares a rule that leaders should live by” (26 June 2018)
- Business
- Morality
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).
- America
- Business
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book
- Motivation & Goals
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
- Failure