"No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience."

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P. T. Barnum

#Men Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Application Quotes

“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
“Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.”

Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.”
“I only write about what I do, what happens to me.”
“If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.”

Source : Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.”

Source : "Haitink lays down operatic baton on his 75th birthday". Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2004.
“The difference between two men is usually a woman.”

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