Quotes

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1. "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Eisntein
2. "Response to Einstein: But there is gravity between lovers!" - Aditya Mittal
3. "Love is the integral of like, and love at first sight is the Dirac delta function." - Aditya Mittal
4. "Anything I might have said, could have made a great quote." - Aditya Mittal
5. "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Paul Tournier
6. "Arrogance and Self-Esteem are two different words for the same attitude, but different feelings." - Aditya Mittal
7. "The dictionary defines good as 'of high quality; excellent' and defines excellent as 'remarkably good.'" - Aditya Mittal
8. "Bad attitude is a sign of poor intellect, but good attitude is not necessarily a sign of good intellect. On the other hand, good or bad intellect do not imply anything about attitude." - Aditya Mittal
9. "Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them" —Andy Grove, after the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994
10. "You don't have to be a rich and famous personality to come up with a good idea or a quote." - Aditya Mittal
11. "All proofs occur under certain necessary assumptions. That is the truth. Even the truth is based under certain necessary assumptions." - Aditya Mittal
12. Bernard Baruch - "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
13. Steve Martin - "I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
14. Bill Vaughan - "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
15. Aditya Mittal - "Money is for Whackpedia, Whackpedia is not for money, unless it earns money to build something even bigger and better."
16. Laurence J. Peter - "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." (For more by Laurence J. Peter: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurence_j_peter.html)
17. I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali
18. "Truth is God" - Mahatma Gandhi (Actually Bhagavad Geeta, it goes on to say that in the end nothing but the truth, the god remains, the body, the relationships, and everything else goes away.)
19. "I get the point of "whack", whack out ideas." - Kevin Du Toit
20. I am a corner case. If you are not careful you will miss me. - Aditya Mittal
21. P. J. O'Rourke - "Never fight an inanimate object."
22. Emma Goldman - "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
23. Vince Lombardi - "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
24. Virgil - "Fortune favours the bold."
25. James Madison - "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
26. Sigmund Freud - "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
27. Eleanor Roosevelt - "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
28. Vittorio Alfieri - "First thoughts are not always the best."
29. Paul Harvey - "I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
30. John N. Mitchell - "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
31. Paul Engle - "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
32. Virat Chirania - "I have learnt that it’s not the place where you live – it’s how you live!!"
33. George Will - "Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
34. Carl Sagan - "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
35. Jack Kerouac - "If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
36. Thomas J. Watson - "The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
37. Mary McCarthy - "We are the hero of our own story."
38. Daniel J. Boorstin - "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
39. Wendell Willkie - "Free men are the strongest men."
40. Swaroop Shyaam - "Be nice, truly nice."
41. Woodrow Wilson - "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
42. Project Selection: Don't start long term projects that you can't sustain because they are like the transient states of a Markov chain. Start only the positive recurrent ones. - Aditya Mittal
43. Barbara Sher - "Doing is a quantum leap from imagining."
44. Simon Travaglia - "Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."
45. Luc de Clapier - "Patience is the art of hoping."
46. Harvey S. Firestone - "You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
47. Aditya Mittal - "Insight: It is what you see, In + Sight. Excite is when you make it explicit. See it? Exsighted?"
48. Gilda Radner - "Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you."
49. Aditya Mittal - "Money without brains is like hardware without software."
50. Tom Brokaw - "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
51. Saint Francis de Sales - "Be who you are and be that well."
52. Barbara Sher - "Doing is a quantum leap from imagining."
53. Simon Travaglia - "Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."
54. Charles M. Schulz - "I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
55. Anne Frank - "Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
56. Michael Jordan - "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
57. Horace Walpole - "Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
58. Adam Shandling - "I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it."
59. Aditya Mittal - "A clever man puts it in a clever way; an intelligent man keeps it; a smart man shows it off; a nice man gives it up; but only a woman truly takes advantage of it."
60. Dhruv Sampat - "Opportunities are maximized only when you don't impose limits in the first place yourself."
61. Dhruv Sampat - "Well for now all I will say is that beware of XXX's million dollar offers if u want to be a billionaire."
62. Nelson Mandela - "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
63. Rene Descartes - "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
64. Aditya Mittal - "What you see, is what you get. What you see, well, that's only a matter of where you look. So, look only at where there is what you want to get, and that's what you'll get."
65. Aditya Mittal - "Let's build the first ever commercial spaceport. Let's look beyond this earth for energy solutions, for extraterrestrial life, and make one world. This is not the era of Picasso or Columbus, this is our era."
66. Aditya Mittal - "Those who are busy telling me to work harder on building the pyramid are completely failing to understand that I am building the spaceship."
67. Dhirubhai Ambani - "Think big, think how to open all doors, think how to take all people along, think success for everyone."
68. Mark Twain - "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
69. Sauhard Gupta - "Love is the weakness of a human, but the strength of humanity."
70. Aditya Mittal - "The world's best investment strategy is to invest in the trust of the people."
71. Aditya Mittal - "History may not be representative of what will happen, but it surely is representative of what can happen."
72. Thomas A. Edison - "To have a great idea, have a lot of them."
73. Laurence J. Peter - "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
74. William Penn - "Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."
75. P. J. O'Rourke - "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
76. Oswald Chambers -"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
77. Plautus - "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
78. Dennis Boyle (IDEO) - "You can get $5000 worth of consulting for the price of a pizza."
79. Bruce Barton - "When you are through changing, you are through."
80. Oswald Chambers - "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
81. Plautus - "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
82. Neil Gaiman (Sandman series) - You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
83. Issac Disraelli - Its a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us
84. Paul Valery - "At times I think and at times I am."
85. Milton Friedman - "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
86. Doris Lessing - "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
87. Demosthenes - "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
88. Aditya Mittal - "We are a solution driven company. We work for our customer, product, and team."
89. Tiyu Wang - "Focus on external reality. Thinking is a curse."
90. Aditya Mittal - "Not sure if people finish work, or work finishes people."
91. P. J. O'Rourke - "If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."
92. Aristotle - "Man is by nature a political animal."
93. Plato - "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
94. Thomas Carlyle - "Silence is more eloquent than words."
95. Benjamin Disraeli - "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
96. Inspired from Veera - M. Ibnur Rashad: "Early bird catches the worm... so try not to be the early worm."
97. Irving Berlin - "Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
98. Dick Armey - "You cannot get ahead while you are getting even."
99. B. F. Skinner - "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
100. Shakti Gawain - "You create your opportunities by asking for them."
101. Aditya Mittal - "The risk lies not in building a house without a plan, the risk lies in building a house without a foundation. Plans change, foundations don't."
102. Nikhil Paul - My new conscious quote: "Only way I succeed in life is if my friends succeed." So anybody need anything call on me and I will try my best.
103. Saint Francis de Sales - "Be who you are and be that well."
104. Mia Ham - "Success breeds success."
105. Stephen Covey - "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
106. Oswald Chambers - "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
107. Aditya Mittal - "The critics always miss the best opportunities."
108. Buddha - "When one masters this wretched desire, so hard to overcome; His sorrows will just fall, like a water drop on lotus petals."
109. Alan Jones - "It is not how good you are, it is how good you want to be."
110. Khalil Gibran - "There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing."
111. Casey Stengel - "Most ball games are lost, not won."
112. Bill Cosby - "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
113. Vince Lombardi - "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
114. Socrates - "Wisdom begins in wonder."
115. Archimedes - "Give me whereon to stand and I will move the earth."
116. John W. Gardner - "History never looks like history when you are living through it."
117. Kurt Cobain - "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
118. Jacob Bronowski - "The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
119. Aristotle Onassis - "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
120. Herbert Hoover - "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
121. Colin Powell - "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
122. James M. Barrie - "Life is a long lesson in humility."
123. Walter Benjamin - "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
124. Shannon Keating - "Here's my philosophy on dating. It's important to have somebody that can make you laugh, somebody you can trust, somebody that, you know, turns you on... And it's really, really important that these three people don't know each other."
125. PJ King Kunal Jain - A thief tied mangalsutra to his gun then sudnly everyone one startd worshipping him WHY??? bcoz he became gun pati!!
126. Winston Churchill - "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
127. Lucius Annaeus Seneca - "He who has great power should use it lightly."
128. Albert Einstein - "The only source of knowledge is experience."
129. Mohandas Gandhi - "Peace is its own reward."
130. Aditya Mittal - "The secret of success: Doubt less and you will do more. When you will do more, your chances of success will go up significantly."
131. Aditya Mittal - "There are those who work after the money comes, and there are those who work before the money comes. Those who work after the money comes never work, and the money never comes."
132. Mark Twain - "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
133. William Shakespeare - "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
134. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
135. Soren Kierkegaard - "Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward."
136. Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher (1788 - 1860)) - All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Tom Brokaw

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." [?]

Bobby Knight

"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win." [?]

Robert Half

"Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake." [?]

Arnold H. Glasow

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." [?]