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Anita Roddick
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
Quoted in The Adventure Capitalists (1998)
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Haruki Murakami
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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Henry Thoreau
You never gain something but that you lose something
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Publilius Syrus
An evil gain equals a loss
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion
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Robert Browning
And gain is gain, however small.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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