The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Money is the root of all good.
- Topic: Money, Perception
- Location: Hawaii, Kula, Maui
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I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.
