"It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed."

-- Gary Sick

#Purpose Quotes #Economy Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.”
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”
“Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.”

Source : Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.5, Harvard University Press
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Source : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ***** and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.”
“In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.”

Source : "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.
“However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.”

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