Quotes Added in March 2008

A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.George Clason

• wealth
• money

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.Jean Jacques Rousseau

• government

And I honor the man who is willing to sink

Half his present repute for the freedom to think,

And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,

Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.James Russell Lowell

• reputation
• freedom
• free speech
• risk

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.Herodotus

• risk

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.George Patton

• risk
• judgment

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.Arnold Bennett

• adversity

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.Peter Drucker

• courage
• business
• risk

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E. E. Cummings

• uniqueness

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein

• mind
• intelligence
• intellect