“The most splendid achievment of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
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“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
Timothy Leary
“The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.”
http://imgur.com/WjwvcOD
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.”
Lee Iacocca
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
Thomas Fuller
“I’m going to go down getting my data. That’s the only reason I chase. It’s for the data.”
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/big...
Tim Samaras
“Everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an a-----e is a horrible meal.”
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/chris...
Chris Rock
“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors.”
Ernest Hemingway
“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.”
Jeff Bezos
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”
Jeff Bezos
“We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.”
Jeff Bezos
“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'”
Jeff Bezos
“In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.”
Jeff Bezos
“Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.”
Jeff Bezos
“Your margin is my opportunity.”
Jeff Bezos
“All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.”
Jeff Bezos
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
Richard Feynman
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
Gautama Buddha
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln