The market is volatile. Crashes, pullbacks and corrections are all absolutely normal. None of them are the end of the world, and none are even the end of the market's relentless rise. They are all, each and every one, expected parts of the process.
- from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
The old choice was to work at a job or take a big risk going out on your own. The new reality is that working at a job may be the far riskier choice. Instead, take the safe road and go out on your own.
- from The $100 Startup book by Chris Guillebeau
People suspect women of hanky-panky. But they never suspect women of espionage. No one thinks women can keep secrets.
- from The Rose Code book by Kate Quinn
The screwiest thing you can do is to think you're a Master of the Universe. We're all just little cogs, and the universe will go on without us. We have to fit into it and adapt to it.
- Howard Marks, from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green
Smirky mouths make you want to kiss them, to smooth them out and kiss the smirkiness away. Or maybe not away … but you want to control it somehow. Make it yours.
- from The Summer I Turned Pretty book by Jenny Han
When the culture of any organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human dignity of the individuals who serve that system or who are served by that system, you can be certain that the shame is systemic, the money is driving ethics, and the accountability is all but dead.
- from Braving the Wilderness book by Brené Brown
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
- from To Kill A Mockingbird book by Harper Lee
The soul that is impure, sordid, and selfish is gravitating with unerring precision toward misfortune and catastrophe; the soul that is pure, unselfish, and noble is gravitating with equal precision toward happiness and prosperity.
- James Allen, from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green
Truthfully, I'm not the best traveler in the world. I know this because I've traveled a lot and I've met people who are great at it. Real naturals. I've met travelers who are so physically sturdy they could drink a shoebox of water from a Calcutta gutter and never get sick. People who can pick up new languages where others of us might only pick up infectious diseases. People who know how to stand down a threatening border guard or cajole an uncooperative bureaucrat at the visa office. People who are the right height and complexion that they kind of look halfway normal wherever they go - in Turkey they just might be Turks, in Mexico they are suddenly Mexican, in Spain they could be mistaken for a Basque, in Northern Africa they can sometimes pass for Arab.
- from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
The secret is to start walking before you see a clear path. [...] Start walking, and as you become accustomed to walking, watch your fear of dark places disappear. Start walking because, as Newton's first law goes, objects in motion tend to stay in motion - once you get going, you will keep going. Start walking because your small steps will eventually become giant leaps. Start walking, not because it's easy, but because it's hard. Start walking because it's the only way forward.
- from The Thursday Murder Club book by Richard Osman