"What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish."

-- Ayn Rand

#Growing Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Thrive Quotes

“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.
“Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.”
“I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.”
“When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.”
“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”
“Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western”
“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck. ... The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked.”

Source : Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.
“We are deploying battle groups, battalions, which we consider necessary to convey a message of deterrence, credible deterrence, that if one NATO ally is attacked, it will trigger a whole response from the whole alliance.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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