Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and research that have been meaningful to me. I call them “Nuggets of Wisdom.”
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“I would desire it be said of me: ‘He lived usefully’ instead of ‘He died rich.’”
“My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. When you attain excellence, success naturally follows.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
“We suffer more in our imagination than in reality.”
“If you cannot answer a man’s argument, do not panic. You can always call him names.”
“Economy is one of the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest danger to be feared.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“My friends, we have a great deal more to do in this world than go to heaven when we die.”
Richard E Simmons III is the founder and Executive Director of The Center for Executive Leadership and a best-selling author.
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