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«Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(
Historian,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
accomplished,
achieve,
costs,
decided,
distaste,
gain,
immense,
labor,
self confidence,
task,
tedium,
tiresome
«Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.»
«A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder»
«Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.»
«Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing»
«Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
costing,
costs,
counsel,
counseled,
counseling,
countenance,
countenanced,
countenances,
courtesies,
courtesy,
niggardly,
Thee
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
aloft,
constantly,
costing,
costs,
danger,
effort,
five,
free,
freedom,
free man,
highest,
High Ones,
individuals,
measured,
nations,
near,
neared,
nearing,
nears,
overcome,
resistance,
seek,
servitude,
stay,
steps,
that nation,
threshold,
thresholds,
type,
typed,
type A,
typing,
tyrannies,
tyranny
«Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs»
Author: Henry Ford
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About:
Business,
Competition
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Keywords:
competition,
costs,
cutting,
cutting edge,
cut away,
edge,
Edge of,
keen,
keenest,
shaved,
shaves,
shaving
«Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Wealth
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Keywords:
ambition,
century,
costs,
fight,
must have,
The God,
this century,
wealth,
weapons,
with ambition,
worships