Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Bill Gates

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Bill Gates

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

Bill Gates

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Bo Schembechler

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

Bobbi Brown

Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

Billy Sunday

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Carlos Ghosn

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

Diane von Furstenberg

Be the Woman You Want to Be....

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Diane von Furstenberg

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

David Korten

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

David Korten

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

Rajneesh

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Soichiro Honda

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Nicolas Chamfort

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Lauryn Hill

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Lisa Ling

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

John Taylor Gatto

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

John Taylor Gatto

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

John Sexton

It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

John Robbins

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

John O'Hurley

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

Neil Gaiman

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

John Muir

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.