

“Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
― Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
― Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
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“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
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