Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.
There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
We turned our planes around after landing and got them off again in 20 minutes back in the early days; 15 minutes in many cases. That gave us a huge cost advantage because we could do more flying in a day with a single plane than anybody else.
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
If you want to earn more, learn more.
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.