"All men seek one goal: success or happiness."

-- Aristotle

#Men Quotes #Goal Quotes

“We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.”
“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
“I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.”

Source : "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
“I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'”
“I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.”
“Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.”
“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.”

Source : "The Best Advice Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Ever Received" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. January 13, 2013.

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