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4,434 quotes from great books
"Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated power."
โ The Master Key System in Twenty-Four Parts with Questionnaire and Glossaryby Charles Francis Haanel
"The law of attraction will bring to you the conditions, environment, and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant thought."
โ The Master Key System in Twenty-Four Parts with Questionnaire and Glossaryby Charles Francis Haanel
"Visualize the condition you desire; see it objectively. This will bring it into manifestation through the operation of the law of growth."
โ The Master Key System in Twenty-Four Parts with Questionnaire and Glossaryby Charles Francis Haanel
"We are not to acquire that which we already possess. We are to use it; to understand it; to bring it into conscious realization."
โ The Master Key System in Twenty-Four Parts with Questionnaire and Glossaryby Charles Francis Haanel
"Abundance is a natural law of the universe, the evidence of which is seen in all nature, but we must first realize this abundance in our own consciousness."
โ The Master Key System in Twenty-Four Parts with Questionnaire and Glossaryby Charles Francis Haanel
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"The annual labour of each nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"To take the greatest possible advantage of this division of labour, it must happen that either the whole of the same man's work shall be performed by one single person, or that it shall be divided into different branches."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for any capital which he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer."
โ The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"The Master Mind may be defined as: Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not first thoroughly master some field of endeavor."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"Tolerance is the subject that should be taught in every school and college in the world, for without it civilization cannot progress."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"Self-discipline is the most essential factor in the art of getting along with others and achieving permanent success."
โ The Law of Successby Napoleon Hill
"Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding themโor often, ferreting them outโis the key to solving just about any mystery, from violent crime to sports cheating to online dating."
โ FREAKONOMICSby Steven D. Levitt
"Morality represents how we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work."
โ FREAKONOMICSby Steven D. Levitt
"Information is a beacon, a drug, annything that furthers one's reach. But information can also be manipulated to possess a power all its own."
โ FREAKONOMICSby Steven D. Levitt