Quotation Collection

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Kelland

• children
• parents

For thus I estimate the qualities of the mind: 1, good humor; 2, integrity; 3, industry; 4, science. The preference of the first to the second quality may not at first be acquiesced in; but certainly we had all rather associate with a good-humored, light-principled man, than with an ill-tempered rigorist in morality. Thomas Jefferson

• integrity
• personality
• initiative

When you fight with a pig, you both get dirty. But the pig likes it. John Patrick Dolan

• argument

An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win. Paul Graham

• power

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