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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet, philosopher, and essayist during the 19th century. He displayed many unique ideas and values and was known for challenging traditional thoughts.
Here are 61 Thought-Provoking Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:
1. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting… Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “Love, and you shall be loved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
20th Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “It is not the length of life, but the depth.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
40th Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “Every artist was first an amateur.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “You become what you think about all day long.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “People only see what they are prepared to see.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. “In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.” ? Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dale Carnegie was an American Author and lecturer in self-improvement, public speaking, interpersonal skills and salesmanship.
Dale Carnegie was the author of some of the world’s top selling books such as “How To Win Friends And Influence People” and “How To Stop Worrying And Start Living”.
Here are 32 Inspirational & Motivational Dale Carnegie Quotes
1. “Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.” – Dale Carnegie
2. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.” – Dale Carnegie
3. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” – Dale Carnegie
4.“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument – and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” – Dale Carnegie
6. “Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.” – Dale Carnegie
7. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie
8. “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” – Dale Carnegie
9. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
10th Dale Carnegie Quote – “You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” – Dale Carnegie
11. “Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.” – Dale Carnegie
12. “The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simply. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.” – Dale Carnegie
13. “Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.” – Dale Carnegie
14. “You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” – Dale Carnegie
15. “all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
16. “Winning friends begins with friendliness.” – Dale Carnegie
17. “Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurt his sense of importance and arouses resentment.” – Dale Carnegie
18. “If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.” – Dale Carnegie
19th Dale Carnegie Quote – “To be interesting, be interested.” – Dale Carnegie
20. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
21. “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie
22. “The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener – a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.” – Dale Carnegie
23. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie
24. “Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.” – Dale Carnegie
25. “Names are the sweetest, most important sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie
26. “By fighting, you never get enough – but by yielding, you get more than you expected.” – Dale Carnegie
27. “Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’” – Dale Carnegie
28. “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” – Dale Carnegie
29. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
30. “It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.” – Dale Carnegie
31. “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” – Dale Carnegie
32. “Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” – Dale Carnegie
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Jack Ma or Ma Yun is a Chinese Businessman and Philanthropist whom is the founder and executive chairman Alibaba Group.
As of 2014, he is the richest man in China and the 18th Richest person in the world with an estimated networth of $24.1 billion.
Take a look at some Jack Ma Quotes:
40 Motivating Jack Ma Quotes:
1. “No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).” – Jack Ma
2. “Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.” – Jack Ma
3. “I try to make myself happy because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.” – Jack Ma
4. “Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.” – Jack Ma
5. “I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.” – Jack Ma
6. “Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.” – Jack Ma
7. “My job is to help more people have jobs.” – Jack Ma
8. “When we have money, we start making mistakes.” – Jack Ma
9. “We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.” – Jack Ma
10. “If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?” – Jack Ma
11. “I’m a normal guy.” – Jack Ma
12. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.” – Jack Ma
13. “Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.” – Jack Ma
14. “Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.” – Jack Ma
15. “When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.” – Jack Ma
16th Jack Ma Quote – “Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.” – Jack Ma
17. “I don’t care about revenues. – Jack Ma
18. “You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.” – Jack Ma
19. “If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” – Jack Ma
20. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” – Jack Ma
21. “A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.” – Jack Ma
22. “I don’t want people (in China) to have deep pockets but shallow minds.” – Jack Ma
23. “I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.” – Jack Ma
24. “You never know how much can you do in your life.” – Jack Ma
25. “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.” – Jack Ma
26. “It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.” – Jack Ma
27. “You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.” – Jack Ma
28. “I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.” – Jack Ma
29. “We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams.” – Jack Ma
30. “The very important thing you should have is patience.” – Jack Ma
31. “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.” – Jack Ma
32nd Jack Ma Quote – “Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons(to fail) whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.” – Jack Ma
33. “Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team’s all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.” – Jack Ma
34. “If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.” – Jack Ma
35. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma
36. “It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.” – Jack Ma
37. “You need the right people with you, not the best people.” – Jack Ma
38. “You’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.” – Jack Ma
39. “We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.” – Jack Ma
40. “I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.” – Jack Ma
10 Quotes & Lessons from Jack Ma
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Warren Buffett is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist and is considered the most successful investor in the world.
He is the CEO, chairman and biggest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffett was ranked the world’s wealthiest person in 2008, and 3rd wealthiest person in 2015.
Take a look at Warren Buffett quotes below:
51 Brilliant Warren Buffett Quotes:
1. “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.” – Warren Buffett
2. “In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett
3. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
4. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
5. “The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.” – Warren Buffett
5. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.” – Warren Buffett
6. “Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.” – Warren Buffett
7. “If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” – Warren Buffett
8. “You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.” – Warren Buffett
9. “Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.” – Warren Buffett
10. “Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” – Warren Buffett
11. “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.” – Warren Buffett
12. “Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.” – Warren Buffett
13. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.” – Warren Buffett
14. “Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.” – Warren Buffett
15. “I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of American capitalism.” – Warren Buffett
16. “Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
17. “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” – Warren Buffett
18. “We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.” – Warren Buffett
19. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” – Warren Buffett
20. “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett
21. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett
22. “Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.” – Warren Buffett
23. “A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.” – Warren Buffett
24. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.” – Warren Buffett
25th Warren Buffett Quote – “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
26. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” – Warren Buffett
27. “The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.” – Warren Buffett
28. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” – Warren Buffett
29. “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” – Warren Buffett
30. “We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.” – Warren Buffett
31. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” – Warren Buffett
32. “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.” – Warren Buffett
33. “Our favorite holding period is forever.” – Warren Buffett
34. “We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.” – Warren Buffett
35. “We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’” – Warren Buffett
36. “Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.” – Warren Buffett
37. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
38. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
39. “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.” – Warren Buffett
40th Warren Buffett Quote – “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
41. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffett
42. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett
43. “You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.” – Warren Buffett
44.“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffett
45. “The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.” – Warren Buffett
46. “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.” – Warren Buffett
47. “The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.” – Warren Buffett
48. “Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.” – Warren Buffett
49. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” – Warren Buffett
50. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett
51. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.” – Warren Buffett
