"As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times."

“As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.”

“Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them”

“The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.”

“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.16, Applewood Books

“Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.”

“I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.”

“The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.”

“Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 1, Introduction, p. 2, 1999.