"We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before."
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"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change."
"Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"
"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
"It is not your business to love me. It is mine."
"There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion."
"To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are."
"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
"It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains."
"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."
"Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction."
"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge."
"Don't get mad, get even."
""Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them."
"Look your best - who said love is blind?"
"The final mystery is oneself."
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"