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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
It's good to have people in your life who you don't want to disappoint.
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be useful.
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The long-term success of a relationship depends far more on avoiding the negative than on seeking the positive.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night—there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
The most brilliant financial strategy consists of living well within one’s means.
Money is more like a vaccine than a performance-enhancing drug. It can prevent a lot of misery, but it won’t necessarily make you happier.
Patience is a virtue. Virtues are no fun. Train yourself to be patient and you'll never need to worry about having a lot of competition.
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none. Zero.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.
You need a story to displace a story.
The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
You should have a bias to action. You have 100 decisions a day, but no definitive answers on any of them, if you sit and analyze the world will pass you by. A good plan executed now is better than a great plan executed later.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
Wanting more information is often just a form of procrastination.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
A good advertisement is one that sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
We make advertisements that people want to read. You can’t save souls in an empty church.
A goal without a plan is only a wish.
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The key is not the will to win. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle.