The Alchemist Quotes | Quotsagram

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

What's the world's greatest lie? It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and eternity.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

It’s not how much money you make. It’s how much money you keep.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and the middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

The one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt.

I like Texans so much. They took a great failure and turned it into a tourist destination that makes them millions.

Don’t play it safe. Play it smart.

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.

Without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

The world is full of smart poor people.

Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.

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Quotes about Books | Quotsagram

A book is a gift you can open again and again. -Garrison Keillor

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books. -Shannon Hale

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am a happy victim of books.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. -Paul Sweeney.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. -Neil Gaiman

We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too.

Books have a way of making you homesick for a place you've never been to.

The problem with reading a good book is that you want to finish the book, but you don't want to finish the book.

A book a day keeps reality away.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde

Sleep is good. Books are better. -George R.R. Martin

Books are mirrors of the soul. -Virginia Wolf

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. -John Green

Books are a uniquely portable magic. -Stephen King

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. -James Patterson

There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. -Haruki Murakami

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be. -Elizabeth Scott

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. -Jhumpa Lahiri

We shouldn't be concerned about library spaces without books. We should be concerned about library spaces without librarians. However, our current offerings and our representative symbol tell a story in which a bookless library makes less sense than a librarianless library. -Aaron Schmidt

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The Greatest Salesman in the World Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

Failure will never overtake we if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

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Rework (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

You don’t need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.

When you treat people like children, you get children’s work.

If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not f*ck or sh*t. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast.

If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis.

We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.

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ReWork (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t.

Start a business, not a startup.

Working more doesn’t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The real question is how well you execute.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

You’re better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.

Policies are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough.

Estimates that stretch weeks, months, and years into the future are fantasies.

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition.

The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they’ll never happen.

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The Lessons of History (Ariel Durant & Will Durant) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.

The only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

There is no humorist like history.

The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it.

War is a nation’s way of eating.

Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character.

It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time”, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.

To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions.

Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically.

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

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Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt) Quotes Collection

Economics is, at root, the study of incentives.

If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.

The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns.

Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control.

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.

If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.

An expert must be bold, if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties.

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Tools of Titans Quotes (Tim-Ferriss) Collection | Quotsagram

When 99% of people doubt you, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

If you ran into an as*hole in the morning, you ran into an as*hole. If you run into as*holes all day, you're the as*hole.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you’ll ever make in your life.

My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.

When you complain, nobody wants to help you.

The superheroes you have in your mind are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized one or two strengths.

Good stories always beat good spreadsheets.

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend, the more you have.

I always advise young people to become good public speakers. Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you’re the boss of the people who have only one skill.

It’s always the hard part that creates value.

If you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you’re going to make a lot of mistakes.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

You’re not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You’re responsible for maxing out what you were given.

Think of problems as gold mines. The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

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The 5 Second Rule (Mel Robbins) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.

You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.

It’s not the big moves that change everything, it’s the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.

The problem was very clear. It was me. I was holding myself back, five seconds at a time.

You can’t control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.

If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.

Your feelings don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you do.

To play any game, you have to start. To win, you need to keep going.

You are one decision away from a completely different life.

I was the problem and in five seconds, I could push myself and become the solution.

You are not going to win, if you keep telling yourself to wait.

Pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.

The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.

Hesitation is the kiss of death. You might hesitate for a just nanosecond, but that’s all it takes. That one small hesitation triggers a mental system that’s designed to stop you. And it happens in less than, you guessed it, five seconds.

There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life, a bias toward action.

If you have one of those impulses that are pulling you, if you don’t marry it with an action, within 5 seconds, you pull the emergency break and kill the idea.

There is only one you. And there will never be another one. That's your power.

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Art of War Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

In war, the way, is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.

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Art of War Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.

Begin by seizing something, which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. Attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

Who wishes to fight must first count the cost.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

Our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.

People seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

Be as precise as possible about your need for aid.

Persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.

There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.

Revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.

We all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

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