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“One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that”

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Book:Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results

Source: Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results

“Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it”

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Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”

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Book:Lo!

Source: Lo!

“There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.”

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Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?”

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Author:Plato

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

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Book:Managing in Turbulent Times

Source: Managing in Turbulent Times

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

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Book:The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker

Source: The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker