Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision.
Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time...Nothing is more important than TIME... can't buy it back ever.
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.
You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
When someone talks about their problems, it doesn't just mean they're complaining, it means they trust you enough to tell you.
When you stop grabbing for things, sometimes the world just hands them to you, instead. Focusing on others is true success.
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.
That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant ...
I remembered the last time I put this thing into my eye it was more painful than watching old political speeches while listening to the “Macarena” and having a root canal performed by an angry, clumsy chimp.
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.
Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.
...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness.
As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.
