"Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing."
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"When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard."
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"So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea."
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"Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price."
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"If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win."
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"Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it."
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"A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people."
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"You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality."
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."
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"It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"
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"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."
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"Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy."
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"Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not."
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"Running is a huge category for us. To be able to run to work and have lightweight, breathable, windproof materials you can chuck in your bag that work on technical level but also on a lifestyle level are really important to me. I work out - and I think most people do - and I want to encourage women and inspire them in a way that fits in with their lifestyle."
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"Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together."
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"Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior."
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"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems."
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"The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you."
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"People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening."
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"I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street."
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