"Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well."

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Diane Ackerman

#Length Quotes #Just Live Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.”

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
“Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.”
“It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.”
“There are things you think you cannot do. You have no idea how strong you are until you try.”
“We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.”
“I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.”
“Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.”

Source : Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”

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