1001 Money Tips and Sayings (1001 Quotations Book 2)

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. Seek above all for a game worth playing. Such is the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity; play as if your life and sanity depend on it. They do depend on it. When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. Also see my favorite quotations about writing and self-publishing. The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand. Empty pockets never held anyone back.

Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. You are never given a wish without the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

If you follow the crowd, you will likely get no further than the crowd. If you walk alone, you're likely to end up in places no one has ever been before. Being an achiever is not without its difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. The unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll simply say it was obvious to everyone all along.

You have two choices in life. You can dissolve into the main stream, or you can choose to become an achiever and be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no else but you can be. The great creative individual. If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

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When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. People who don't respect money don't have any. Paul Getty, Billionaire Oil Tycoon. Money will appear when you are doing the right thing in your life.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

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If you believe it can't be done, at least don't get in the way of the person who is doing it. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would have been enough. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

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Quotes How an English teacher conquered China: Wisdom of Jack Ma condensed into 33 quotes Alok Soni. You need the right people with you, not the best people. We lack people with dreams, people who can die for those dreams. I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger. Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation. If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure. I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

You never know how much can you do in your life. You've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength. If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't. A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated. You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you. Never ever do business with the government.

Be in love with them, never marry them. When we have money, we start making mistakes. We should never finish a 20 year program in two year. Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao. Life is so short, so beautiful.

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Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are. Alok Soni prefers to keep his bio short owing to a dearth of creativity. Feel free to reach out to him at alok[at]yourstory[dot]com or follow on twitter aloksoni.