"If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem."

-- Robert Maxwell

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Balance Quotes

“It's not that I haven't given it (turning pro) careful thought, it's just that I am torn as to which course I should take. There is no need to rush. I won't be consulting anybody about this and I will do things my own way.”
“I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.”
“For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?”
“A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.”

Source : Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books
“I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.”
“Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.”
“I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.”
“Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.”

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