"You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have."

-- Robert Greene

#Ideas Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.”
“Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.”
“There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.”
“Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.”
“I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.”
“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”
“Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.”
“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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