"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

-- Madam C. J. Walker

#Inspirational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
“But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.”
“There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.”
“It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.”
“I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.”
“for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins
“Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.”

Source : 1986 Risk and Other Four-Letter Words.
“Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.”

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