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“A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.”

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Author:Louis Tice

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

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Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.”

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Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.”

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Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.”

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.”

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Book:Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten

Source: Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten

“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.”

“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”

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Author:George Michael

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”

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Book:The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)

Source: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

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Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

“Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.”

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Author:Ken Kaess

“What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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