"I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business."

-- Angelina Jolie

#Believe Quotes #Careers Quotes #Long Quotes

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
“The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.”

Source : "The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Müller, www.spiegel.de. November 08, 2010.
“When you are giving a certain portion of your life to people and you're selling it sexually, you're selling it sensually, and you're selling it romantically - for you to then take that portion that you give only to fans away and to give it to one person, it kind of... if they don't approve, it might be crickets for me.”
“Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.”
“We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage
“A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.”
“At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what's priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no 'good' or 'bad' horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones.”
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”

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