"You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you."

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Source : "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

Marissa Mayer

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“Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.”
“The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.”
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
“You just have to have a simple faith.”
“The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.”
“Drawing is the sum of directions.”
“We change for the good so long as good exists around us.”

Source : Michael Lewis (1998). “Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future”, p.204, Guilford Press
“Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.”

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