"The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless."

-- Francoise Sagan

#Passion Quotes #Rich Quotes #Poor Quotes

“If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.”

Source : Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan
“Love is always open arms.”
“It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.”
“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”
“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”
“None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
“Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.”

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