Eman Rashid > Eman's Quotes

“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
― Matt Taibbi

“Your network is your net worth.”
― Tim Sanders

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Over the years that followed, I found that most of the extraordinarily successful people I’ve met had similar big painful failures that taught them the lessons that ultimately helped them succeed. Looking back on getting fired from Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs said, “It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
― Albert Einstein

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“If you fear poverty, poverty will come upon you. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible companions.”
― Hendrith Smith, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
― John D. Rockefeller

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
― John D. Rockefeller

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.”
― John D. Rockefeller

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
― Farrah Gray

“The borrower is slave to the lender.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.”
― Dave Ramsey

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
― John D. Rockefeller

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.”
― Al-Quran

“Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.”
― Warren Buffett

“Sinners judging sinners for sinning differently.”
― Sui Ishida

“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Reach what you cannot”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”
― Leona Helmsley

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Adolf Hitler