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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 116
“Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 30
“Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 132
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 52
“There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 38
“The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
“When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 81
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 29
“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 101
“No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 29
“Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 70
“The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 70
“Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 68
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 79
“We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 135
“If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 31
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 139
“For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 146
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 115
“Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94
“We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103
“Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.”
Origine: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94