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- You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
- Wall Street Proverb
- Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
- Ralph Charell
- If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
- Chris Evert (1954 - )
- One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
- Frederick William Robertson
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