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Wise Quotes
Famous Quotes
Work Quotes
Business Quotes
Tech Quotes
Anime Quotes
Game Quotes
Movie Quotes
Book Quotes
Humour Quotes
Internet Quotes
Friend Quotes
Dangerous Ideas
Wise Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Learning never exhausts the mind. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life. | Marcus Aurelius |
| Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. | Eugene Ionesco |
| The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations |
| He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, too effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar-athlete, the man of thought and the man of action. | Plato |
| You can’t classify me as black or white. I am something much greater. I am gray. | Goku |
| To reach your dreams, you must sacrifice everything else you don’t need. | Goku |
| Victory is worth the sacrifice. | Goku |
| If you have a list of all the things you shouldn’t do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating. | Paul Graham |
| The easiest way to navigate a ship through a tight spot is to look at other shipwrecks and steer away from them. | Goku |
| Don’t take over the world, become a god by creating a world. | Goku |
| The world doesn’t change itself. | Goku |
| Some people are immune to buffs. They have a block-buffs debuff. | Goku |
| People with a few days of knowledge often think they’ve found a genius idea. What they don’t consider is that people who have been building in the space for years have likely heard it a thousand times already. If it were easy, it would already be implemented. | Goku |
| Don’t follow ideologies. Don’t try to change people. Change yourself: your thinking and habits. Don’t create conflict. Become peaceful, remain skeptical, seek truth, and bring people together. |
Goku |
| Modern society leaves you no time for self-improvement or real education. | Goku |
| Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. | Unknown |
| Think a thousand times before making a decision, but once decided, never turn back, even through a thousand difficulties. | Unknown |
| Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. | Unknown |
| You’re entitled to your labor. You’re not entitled to the fruit of your labor. | Unknown |
| The death of all principles starts with a single compromise. | Unknown |
| The bigger the circle of known, the larger the contact with unknown. | Phoenix Hou |
| Life becomes easy when it becomes natural, for nature never struggles. But man is never free of it. | Siddha |
| The laws of nature are greater than the laws of man. | Goku |
| The best lessons come from the worst pain. | Goku |
| Supplements are medicine being sold to you to make up for your nutritionally deficient diet. | Goku |
| The most efficient system in your body is your gut feeling during social interactions. | Goku |
| Changing the system and society is always harder than changing yourself. | Alex Cortes |
| For a change to happen in the world, someone has to pay. | Garry Tan |
Famous Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. | Diane Grant |
| The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. | Albert Einstein |
| If we wanna change we gotta fight for it, aint nobody gonna give it to us, we just gonna have to take it. | 2pac |
| Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. | Penn Jillette |
| I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. | Nikola Tesla |
| The closer you get to excellence in your life, the more friends you’ll lose. People love you when you’re average because it makes them comfortable. But when you pursue greatness it makes people uncomfortable. Be prepared to lose some people on your journey. | Tony A. Gaskins Jr. |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | George Bernard Shaw |
| One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. | André Gide |
| Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. | Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four |
| The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. | Tara Ploughman |
| Philosophy is dead. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. | Stephen Hawking |
| I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. | Isaac Newton |
| I have studied these things - you have not. | Isaac Newton |
| We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. | Charles Kingsley |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. | Mark Twain |
| I would rather be first in a village than second in Rome. | Julius Caesar |
| Men are moved by two levers only: Fear and self-interest. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge. | Garry Kasparov |
| One man is worth ten thousand if he is extraordinary. | Heraclitus |
| If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything. | Abraham Lincoln |
| If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. | Albert Einstein |
| Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. | Albert Einstein |
| The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. | Richard Feynman |
| In our own time, different societies have wildly varying ideas of what’s ok and what isn’t. So you can try diffing other cultures’ ideas against ours as well. … In one culture x is ok, and in another it’s considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that’s shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one. | Paul Graham |
| I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly. | Paul Graham |
| When you find something you can’t say, what do you do with it? My advice is, don’t say it. Or at least, pick your battles. … Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. … The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. | Paul Graham |
| In every period of history, people believe things that were just ridiculous, and believe them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise. … It’s tantalizing to think we believe things that people in the future will find ridiculous. What WOULD someone coming back to visit us in a time machine have to be careful not to say? | Paul Graham |
| The people you can say heretical things to without getting jumped on are also the most interesting to know. | Paul Graham |
| The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true. | Paul Graham |
| It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. | Paul Graham |
| In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally. | Paul Graham |
| I’ve been surprised again and again by just how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. | Paul Graham |
| We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. | Marshall McLuhan |
| In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. | Eric Hoffer |
| I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear. | 2pac |
| If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day. | 2pac |
| A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once. | 2pac |
| It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. | George Bernard Shaw |
| A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport. | Enrique Penalosa |
| At the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it’s 100% safe, it is holding you back. | Jeff Atwood |
| If you’re going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill |
| The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop people who don’t want it badly enough. | Randy Pausch |
| War does not determine who is right - only who is left. | Bertrand Russell |
| A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. | Lazarus Long |
| Life isn’t about finding yourself; it is about creating yourself. | George Bernard Shaw |
| In order to survive got to learn to live with regrets, On the rise to the top many drop, don’t forget. | Jay-Z |
| Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up. | Elon Musk |
| It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. | Elon Musk |
| The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. | Elon Musk |
| The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing, just sounds like the worst - it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. | Elon Musk |
| Ya know, Wikipedia’s actually pretty damn good. It’s like 90% accurate. It’s just not clear what 90%. | Elon Musk |
| Physics is a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. | Elon Musk |
| You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse. | Elon Musk |
| It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. | Elon Musk |
| I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. | Elon Musk |
| If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. | Elon Musk |
| Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind as to assume that our views of science are ultimate. That there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. | Humphry Davy |
| Cause two suckers can’t agree on something a thousand motherfuckers die for nothing | Geto Boys |
| All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory. | Dale Carnegie |
| The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. | Nikola Tesla |
| One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. | Vincent Bugliosi |
| Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. | Nikola Tesla |
| If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun. | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. | Horace Walpole |
| Language is humanity’s oldest, and possibly best, growth hack. The right words, in the right order, at the right time, can do wonders. | Kissmetrics |
| If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. | Henry Ford |
| The person who is not master of himself can never be master of others. | Napoleon Hill |
| Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. | Napoleon Hill |
| What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. | Napoleon Hill |
| Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. | Napoleon Hill |
| A goal is a dream with a deadline. | Napoleon Hill |
| Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. | Napoleon Hill |
| Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent. | Napoleon Hill |
| The most impressive people I know spent their time with their head down getting shit done for a long, long time. | Sam Altman |
| I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. | Linus Torvalds |
| I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. | Robert Bloch |
| A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression. | Jane McGonigal |
| If knowledge is power, and its application your will, then wisdom is the sum of your power, and wisdom shared, is the alignment of others to your will… | ??? |
| A word to the wise is sufficient. | ??? |
| Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. | ??? |
| Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. | ??? |
| Weak people take revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. | ??? |
| The only failure is failure to learn. | ??? |
| I will win, not immediately but definitely. | ??? |
| Only successful generals can form dictatorships. | ??? |
| Emotion is weakness. | ??? |
| A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. | Yoko Ono |
| Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. | Langston Hughes |
| I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. | Unknown |
| The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. | Molière |
| He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. | Lao Tzu |
| The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who dares wins. | British SAS motto |
| Your ideas are like diamonds without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless. | Paul Kearly |
| You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. | Beverly Sills |
| Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. | Unknown |
| Teams share the burden and divide the grief. | Doug Smith |
| Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. | Alexander the Great |
| Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. | Casey Stengel |
| Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. | Vince Lombardi |
| Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group. | Max DePree |
| Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. | Helen Keller |
| Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. | Michael Jordan |
| If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| None of us is as smart as all of us. | Ken Blanchard |
| The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. | James Cash Penney |
| In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time. | Anthony J. D’Angelo |
| People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. | Pete Zafra |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. | Jim Rohn |
| You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. | Babe Ruth |
| The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. | Sven Goran Eriksson |
| Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. | Albert Einstein |
| If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful. | Michelangelo |
| The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. | Vince Lombardi |
| Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education is not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | Calvin Coolidge |
| You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. | Stephen McCranie |
| When experts are wrong, it’s often because they’re experts on an earlier version of the world. | Paul Graham |
| A man is worth just as much as the things about which he busies himself. | Marcus Aurelius |
| It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. | Charlie Munger |
| Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat. | Sun Tzu |
| I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do. | Charlie Munger |
| The phrase, “I can’t,” denotes a lack of investment as opposed to a lack of potential or ability. | Rob Jones |
| So the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| Freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| Generations of men establish a growing mastery over the earth, but they are destined to become fossils in its soil. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. | Will and Ariel Durant |
| If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you. | Mike Tyson |
| Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. | Savielly Tartakower |
| No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others. | Earl Nightingale |
| A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. | Unknown |
| You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. | James R. Sherman |
| In my whole life, I have known no wise people, over a broad subject-matter area, who didn’t read all the time. None, zero. | Charlie Munger |
| Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. | Otto von Bismarck |
| I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. | Albert Einstein |
| The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. | Richard Feynman |
| I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer. | Carl Jung |
| To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. | Unknown |
| If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| A wise man will be master of his mind; a fool will be its slave. | Publilius Syrus |
| It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations |
| Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. | Edward de Bono |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. | Cicero, Pro Plancio |
| To do two things at once is to do neither. | Publilius Syrus |
| A tree is judged by its fruit. | Jesus |
| A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. | Charles Darwin |
| The iron rule in life, in a historical sense, is that if you’re lucky enough to be in a leadership position eventually you have to pass the baton. | Charlie Munger |
| Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist. | George Carlin |
| For any day that stings, two better days it brings. | Joey DeMaio |
| The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. | Brian Sutton-Smith |
| The wise man is self-sufficient. Nevertheless, he desires friends, neighbours, and associates, no matter how much he is sufficient unto himself. | Seneca, Moral Letters |
| We were the prisoners of our own fantasy. | Blind Guardian |
| Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. | Carl Sagan |
| You’re unhappy because you’re not healthy enough to be happy. Your body is craving something all the time. How are you psychologically emotionally ever going to be happy unless you can please the body? | Goku |
| A modern disease related to old fashion food is the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard in my life. | Unknown |
| It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. | Richard Feynman |
| Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. | William Blake |
| The only person who can truly play is the one who arrives whole. As long as you need something from it, you are its prisoner. | Unknown |
| Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. | Pericles |
| He cannot be held to the same standard as you and I. | Howard Hughes’s lawyer |
Work Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| If a man has not found what he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Focusing is about saying no. | Steve Jobs |
| Discipline is hard – harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can’t even keep from snacking in between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at. | Atul Gawande |
| If you gave me six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening my axe. | Abraham Lincoln |
| When you are ready to quit you are closer than you think. | Bob Parsons |
| Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. | W. Clement Stone |
| We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness. | Vince Lombard |
| Art is never finished, only abandoned. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. | Leon Battista Alberti |
| You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. | Robert M. Pirsig |
| Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. | Babe Ruth |
| Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for. | Jan Houtema |
| Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. | Tim Cook |
| The secret of getting ahead is getting started. | Mark Twain |
| Success is a journey, not a destination. | Ben Sweetland |
| The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. | Chinese proverb |
| I have not failed. i’ve just found 10.000 ways that won’t work. | Thomas Edison |
| Overnight success takes decades of daily work. | Paulo Coelho |
| Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. | John Carmack |
| If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. | Terry Pratchett |
| Success is working on things I enjoy with people I like, feeling free to choose what I work on, and having enough money to live without financial stress. | Adapted from Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA |
| Start with a shitty version, then update like a madman. | Goku |
| There are only two problems in life: you know what you want but don’t know how to get it, or you don’t know what you want. | Steve Snyder, quoted by David Allen, Getting Things Done |
Business Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Success is a choice. The odds are we won’t succeed. But if something is important enough, then you should do it anyway. | Elon Musk |
| It doesn’t matter how many times you failed, you only have to be right once. | Mark Cuban |
| Inventing a job is better than finding a job. | Larry Summers |
| No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy. | Douglas MacArthur |
| A forecast communicates more certainty than actually exists. | Goku |
| Whatever you’re thinking think bigger. | Tony Hsieh |
| Good artists copy. Great artists steal. | Picasso?Jobs?Fuck it -Goku Yilmaz |
| Success is a menace. It fools smart people into thinking they cant lose. | Bill Gates |
| All of a sudden we’re working harder than our fathers, who we laughed at for how hard they worked. | Steve Wozniak |
| Only the paranoid survive. | Andrew Grove |
| Fake it till you become it. | Amy Cuddy |
| Nothing demotivates people like the equal treatment of unequals. When you hire a bozo and treat him the same as a rock star, it deflates the rock star. | Joe Kraus |
| What we failed to understand was that by dummy-proofing all the systems, that we would have a system where only dummies wanted to work there, which was exactly what happened. | Reed Hastings |
| There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. | Christopher Morley |
| If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. | Jim Whittaker |
| The road to success is always under construction. | Arnold Palmer |
| I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. | Warren Buffet |
| “This one Yahoo engineer, a real genius, was talking to me about his research on auction theory,” he says. “I said to him, ‘Do you ever think your talents would be better deployed on health care or Social Security?’ He said, ‘I went to the Department of Health and Human Services that was dealing with drug pricing because I had an idea, and they wouldn’t let me in.’ ” The U.S. has such a backward way of resourcing government, he says, that it can’t make use of novel ideas. | Joel Stein |
| Of course we’re destined to fail. That’s what entrepreneurship is. That’s what– when you try to do something new, the chances are you’re gonna fail. | Alex Kiselev |
| If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. | Reid Hoffman |
| Never stop the car - just adjust the direction it’s moving. | jdero |
| You either die an engineer or live long enough to see yourself become the business guy. | @moonpolysoft |
| Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism. | Amit Kalantri |
| Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal. | Yves Behar |
| The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. | Thomas Huxley |
| Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it. | Salvador Dali |
| In God we trust; all others must bring data. | W. Edwards Deming |
| Reasonably smart people can rationalize anything, but entrepreneurs are especially gifted at this. | Ash Maurya |
| A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. | Chinese Proverb |
| Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. | Donald Porter |
| Every great business is built on friendship. | J.C. Penney |
| The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. | Kevin Stirtz |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit. | Aristotle |
| In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. | Owen Fellt |
| While the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. | Andrew Carnegie |
| An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. | Laurence J. Peter |
| The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” | Orison Swett Marden |
| Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. | Richard Branson |
| A man should never neglect his family for business. | Walt Disney |
| A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. | Richard Branson |
| To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. | Thomas Watson, Sr. |
| If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. | Ray Kroc |
| Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. | Gary Hamel |
| I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times | Senator Everet Dirksen |
| Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. | Vince Lombard |
| Business people are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. | Stanley Bing |
| Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. | Benjamin Franklin |
| The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. | Aristotle |
| No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. | Vince Lombardi |
| No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. | H.E. Luccock |
| Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. | Ifeanyi Enoch |
| Fortunes are built in the down market, and collected in the up market. | Jason Calacanis |
| What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. | Warren Buffett |
| Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. | Savielly Tartakower |
| No man can become rich without himself enriching others. | Andrew Carnegie |
| In order to win, you must first survive. | Warren Buffett |
| If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. | Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big |
| There are two types of people: people who join a company because it will probably succeed, and people who join because they want to make it succeed. | Adapted from Mathilde Collin, Product Hunt Radio |
| If you don’t like a rule, follow it, reach the top, and change it. | Unknown |
| It is rare for founders to be millionaires. Especially before the age of 40. We’ve been exposed to too many survivor bias. | Goku |
Tech Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. | Doug McIlroy |
| Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind. | Sergey Brin |
| Life’s too short for bad software! | Balsamiq |
| In the future there’s potentially two types of jobs: where you tell a machine what to do, programming a computer, or a machine is going to tell you what to do. | Tom Preston-Werner |
| Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. | Donald Knuth |
| I believe that success of software most of all lies in the customer acceptance of software and everything else is secondary. | karancan |
| The collection of information online is both a huge opportunity and a threat to our privacy and security. | IEEE |
| In the information age, the barriers just aren’t there. The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers. | John Carmack |
| All of science and technology and culture and learning and academics is built upon using the work that others have done before. But to take a patenting approach and say it’s like, well, this idea is my idea, you cannot extend this idea in any way, because I own this idea—it just seems so fundamentally wrong. | John Carmack |
| Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It’s expected to be there, but it’s not that important. | John Carmack |
| AI is regularly cited as the “field I would most like to be in” by scientists in other disciplines. A student in physics might reasonably feel that all the good ideas have already been taken by Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and the rest. AI, on the other hand, still has openings for several full-time Einsteins and Edisons. | Stuart Russell |
| UI is important because it affects the feelings, the emotions, and the mood of your users. If the UI is wrong and the user feels like they can’t control your software, they literally won’t be happy and they’ll blame it on your software. If the UI is smart and things work the way the user expected them to work, they will be cheerful as they manage to accomplish small goals. | Rudd-O |
| You get simplicity by finding a slightly more sophisticated building block to build your theories out of. | Alan Kay |
| The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. | William Gibson |
| Science is more incrementally accurate guesses. | Goku |
| For me, art is properly indented code. | Goku |
Anime Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. | Alphonse Elric |
| A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return. Although, if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you’ll find you have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle, yeah.. a heart made of full metal. | Edward Elric |
| Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect, but it’s there for us, trying the best it can. That’s what makes it so damn beautiful. | Roy Mustang |
| If hard is all it takes for you to bail out I don’t wanna know you. | Minene Uryu |
| Dwelling on the past is a waste of time, the present moment belongs to the one who is brave enough to seize it. | Roy Mustang |
| I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. | Mewtwo |
| You were created by humans to obey humans. You could never be our equal. | Giovanni |
| Every challenge along the way, with courage I will face, I will battle every day, to claim my rightful place. | Jason Paige |
| I prefer the logic of systems to individualist emotions. | Suzaku Kururugi |
| In this world, evil can arise from the best intentions. And there is good that can come from evil intentions. | CC |
| Before creation there must be destruction. If my soul stands in the way, then I’ll toss it aside. | Lelouch vi Britannia |
| Hands who mark time can not be stopped. | Lelouch vi Britannia |
| If the king does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow. | Lelouch vi Britannia |
| World is a game and people are just mere pawns. | Lelouch vi Britannia |
| A man who has not mastered the use of the mask can never prevail. | Schneizel el Britannia |
| Mankind’s history is war. Peace is an illusion. | Schneizel el Britannia |
| The biggest human flaw is that we’re so pitifully fragile in our bodies, our hearts, and our relationships with each other. | Lloyd Asplund |
| You need to make a choice, do you abandon science to preserve your heart, or abandon your heart and sacrifice yourself to science? | Lloyd Asplund |
| The people who don’t like what they’ve got are the same people who invent things, and make discoveries, and advance civilization. They made airplanes ‘cause they wanted to fly, and they made cars and trains because they wanted to go from place to place. It’s as simple as that. The only reason that we’ve got all the things we have now is because a certain group of people got together and used their talent or imagination or genius or whatever to make it all possible. Ordinary people are probably better off living their ordinary little lives in an ordinary manner. | Kyon |
| There’s no such thing as love. It’s just a pathetic notion that you lesser life forms cling to so you don’t feel so alone. | Emperor Zing |
| Once you have your dream what will you do with your life? The pleasure of a dream is that its a fantasy. If it happens it was never a dream. | FMA |
| Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities…. thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation. It’s like there’s some missing ingredient….. Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of years, pouring tons of money into research, and to this day they don’t have a theory. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child’s allowence. Humans are pretty cheaply made. | Edward Elric |
| People can say there is a balance, a logic that everything happens for a reason… But the truth is far less designed. No matter how hard you work, when you die, you die. Some spend their entire life trying to scratch their way to the top, and still die in poverty. While others are born into wealth without ever working at all. It’s a cruel and random world. And yet the chaos is all so beautiful. | Dante |
| I just find phones distracting. I can’t stand when people’s cell phones are ringing when I’m trying to talk. | L |
| However gifted you are, you alone can’t change the world. | L |
| There’s only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all! | Vegeta |
| Once you question your beliefs it’s all over. | Naruto |
| If we only focus on making the best moves, we will never get the better of our opponent. When necessary, we must be willing to take big risks and be prepared to lose everything. Unless we change how we fight, humanity cannot win. | Erwin Smith, Attack on Titan, “Crushing Blow” |
Game Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| There is no “good” or “evil”, Only the truly powerful will survive! | Esqarrouth |
| Meaning of life: Craft stuff, kill noobs. | Esqarrouth |
Movie Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Do or do not. There is no try. | Master Yoda |
| Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s going to die. Come watch TV? | Morty Smith |
| All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage. | Mycroft Holmes |
| It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. | Batman |
| No matter how close two people are an infinite distance separates them. | Harry Morgan |
| There are no good people, there are only good decisions. | John Reese |
| Set out to correct the world’s wrongs and you’ll almost certainly wind up adding to them | Harold Finch |
| Civilization rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims. | Carl Elias |
| In chess the pawns go first. | Magneto |
| A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinion of a sheep. | Tywin Lannister |
| When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door. | Kreia |
| I cannot force you to listen to reason, only hope that you will grow past these infantile delusions of right and wrong. | Kreia |
| To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it. It is something no Sith or Jedi has ever truly learned. | Kreia |
| Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands then a clenched fist. | Kreia |
| Do not see every enemy as an enemy, see them instead as an ally, whether they know it or not. | Kreia |
| Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever. | Kreia |
| To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best. | Kreia |
| If you are to truly understand, then you will need to contrast, not adherence to a single ideal. | Kreia |
| You must begin by gaining power over yourself; then another; then a group, an order, a world, a species, a group of species… finally, the galaxy itself. | Darth Plagueis |
| Believing in something is easy, doing something about it is hard. | Ali G |
| The simple truth is, the people want to be protected, they just don’t want to know how. | Roger McCourt |
| I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. | Frank Costello |
| The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers. | Walking Dead |
| The thing about a battle plan is, it only works if soldiers follow orders. | Dominic |
| You know what the romans did when they marched into a country? They gave the king a choice, join or die. Those who joined flourished with the empire. Those who didn’t… Either way the romans took the country. | Dominic |
| These invisible lines we draw on the world– I realize they have no meaning. Why should a man lose his life for something illusory? | John Greer |
| We have something in our favor that the Empire does not! For we are desperate! | Hondo Ohnaka |
| Any man who must say I am the king is no true king. | Tywin Lanister |
| You need to play to win. But… you also need to win… to play. | Michael Scott |
| The most sacred thing I do is care and provide for my workers, my family. I give them money. I give them food. Not directly, but through the money. I heal them. | Michael Scott |
| Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgement. | The Godfather |
| War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. | George Orwell |
| The secret to happiness is burying all your true feelings and living a life of bland compromise. | Lois Griffin |
| As one approaches the end, one begins to see life as it truly is. | Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s Poirot |
| Everything before the word “but” is horseshit. | Jon Snow, Game of Thrones |
| There’s an old saying in show business: The show must go wrong. Everything always goes wrong, and you just have to deal with it. | Andy Dwyer, Parks and Recreation |
| The nature of life is not permanence, but flux. | Mr. Carson, Downton Abbey |
| Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged. | Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: TNG, “The Drumhead” |
| Reality is a construct of simple-minded fools who can’t function in the absence of boundaries. | Adam Soong, Star Trek: Picard, “Mercy” |
Book Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. | J.K Rowling |
| A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. | Italo Calvino |
| Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. | Vera Nazarian |
| The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. | Oscar Wilde |
| Think before you speak. Read before you think. | Fran Lebowitz |
| Never judge a book by its movie. | J.W. Eagan |
| Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. | Humphrey Carpenter |
| Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. | Harold Bloom |
| For every sentence of masterpiece I write 99 sentences of crap. I try hard to make sure that the crap winds up in the wastebasket. | Ernest Hemingway |
| Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. | Stephen King |
Humour Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. | Albert Einstein |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. | William Arthur Ward |
| You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. | Bill Cosby |
| Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. | Mark Twain |
| I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. | Frank Howard Clark |
| Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. | Langston Hughes |
| Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. | Mary Hirsch |
| Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. | Robert Benchley |
| Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. | E. B. White |
| Don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. | Bill Cosby |
| Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free. | Linus Torvalds |
Internet Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it. | ??? |
| Those who don’t clear history are doomed to explain it. | u/C00kies4ever |
| People’s happiness depends on their expectations, not their conditions. | ??? |
| People desperately want to believe they are safe. They look for reasons why bad things happen so they can keep being safe. When bad things happen to someone who didn’t “deserve” it or didn’t do anything to cause it, this makes them realize it could happen to them too. This makes them feel afraid. Because they are afraid, they attack the thing that is causing the fear. Unfortunately, that means they attack the victim and not the perpetrator. | u/mnh5 |
| It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. | ??? |
Friend Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| You can’t become a pokemon master in pallet town. | DBY |
| I think better, because I think as the machine that I am. | Eray Ozkural |
| I like ur hard nose but ur personal expectation of urself can’t always hold true to others. In summation. NAPALM. It’s my fav leadership acronym Not All People Are Like Me. U r good. Others not so much. Pick ur battles. | Brutis37/Kegan |
| Şirketleşmek için uğraşmayın, yaptığınız iş sizi şirketleştirsin. | Abdurrahman Nakipoğlu |
| You need to see like a designer and think like a backend developer. | Vikas Bhagavatula |
| Product Market Fit tutturamayana kız yok burada. | Berkay |
| Fotoğraf çeken nerdler Apple’da, fotoğraf çekmeyen nerdler Google’da. | Furkan |
| Koca gemiler batıyor kıyı kenarlarında, kanolar geçiyor okyanusları. Mesele, dalgalarla boğuşmayı değil, onları tanımayı öğrenmekte. | Çağrı Mumcuoğlu |
| You were born free. The aim is to die free from everything imposed upon you since birth. | Ada |
Dangerous Ideas
Saved for context or discussion. Inclusion does not mean endorsement.
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| Never argue with idiots. Arguing is a waste of time. In any argument one person is right and one person is wrong. Why would the person who is right waste time with the person who is wrong? A stupid person will never be able to understand that they are stupid and wrong, but you make a fool of yourself when you treat stupid people as if they were smart and capable of understanding the truth. If they were smart and capable of understanding the truth then you wouldn’t be arguing in the first place. Arguing is for children. It is unbecoming of a man to be caught acting like a child. | Victor Pride |
| I do not accept or acknowledge many of the established 'social rules'. I view them as irrelevant noise. | |
| As an Ottoman bloodline, you’re meant for fighting, war, glory, murder, conquest, glory, death, razing, destruction, and pillaging. You gotta let that energy out properly or you’ll either be depressed or in jail. Best ways: the gym, music, business, video games, and sports. | Goku |
| There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech. | |
| A skilled dictator is much more beneficial to humanity than a democracy of ignorant people. | Gene Smilas |
| The true nature of people is this, they want to be controlled. By their nation, their religion, their traditions and figures of grand authority. Above all the emperor must play his part. | Schneizel el Britannia |
| This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world... can't go on like this. I wonder... what if someone else had picked up this notebook? Is there anyone out there other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it: there's no one. But I can do it. In fact, I'm the only one who can. I'll do it. Using the Death Note, I'll change the world. | Light Yagami |
| There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. | Lord Voldemort |
| Industry does not care. They only hire people because it hasn't been automated yet. So, don't talk about decency and ethics, we cannot afford it and remain in business. | Zeitgeist |
| Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. | Tatyana’s Thoughts |
| If something doesn't have a pirated version, then it isn't worth checking out. | Goku |
| If your girlfriend doesn't have a personal goal, her personal goal is to make your life miserable. | Goku |
| If you must break the law, do it to seize power: In all other cases observe it. | Julius Caesar |
| My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. ... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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