"The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it."

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Source : "Which job skills will be most important in the future?". Interview with Eric Barker, theweek.com. December 17, 2013.

Tyler Cowen

#Information Quotes #Return Quotes #Just Being Quotes

“You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.”
“If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.”
“Women tend to live longer than men do. Women tend to have, unfortunately, their salaries peaked sooner than men's do. Both of these things are extraordinarily important in putting together financial and investing plans for women.”

Source : "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 201.
“Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon." "They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian." "No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process." "Well that... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1419, Del Rey
“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”

Source : "The Gathas". Book by Zoroaster. Translation by Dinshaw Jamshedji Irani, in K. D. Irani, Rabindranath Tagore, p.96, Yasna 43, 15, www.zarathushtra.com. 1999.
“And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.”
“Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.”
“If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.”

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