"There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'"

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Expression Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #World Quotes

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
“I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.”
“Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.”
“In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.”
“Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.”
“Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers
“2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.”
“Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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