"A small profit is better than a big loss."

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Source : Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.139, Canongate Books

Ron Rash

#Business Quotes #Loss Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peaceâ€¦ inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.”
“The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.”
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”
“I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.”
“When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.”

Source : Arthur Wallis (2011). “God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting”, p.54, CLC Publications
“In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.”
“If you don't know,say so. It's a simple statement that enhances credibility.”

Source : W Brett Wilson (2012). “Redefining Success: Still Making Mistakes”, p.97, Penguin Canada
“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.36

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