"... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract."

-- Hetty Green

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“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”
“There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.”

Source : Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”
“For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.”

Source : "Mitch McConnell: Congress Won’t Make ‘A Lot Of Big Important Things’ Happen This Year" By Samantha Lachman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2014.
“Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.”
“I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.”
“You're as good as anybody.”
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.”

Source : Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”
“Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.”

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