Robert Kiyosaki
Businessman, Author
"When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away."
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Disaster
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster."
Laozi
Philosopher
"When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice."
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"There is no greater disaster than discontent."
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"How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?"
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"There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something."
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"No disaster is worse than being discontented."
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"Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster."
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"It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy.""
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"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
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"A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen."
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"Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs."
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"There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new."
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."
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"Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!"
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"I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know."
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"Disaster comes only because of ignorance."
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"When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them."
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"To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make."
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"Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster."
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"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there."
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