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

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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

“Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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

“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

“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“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

“The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

“If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.”
― Steve Jobs

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

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“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

“To lead the people, walk behind them.”
― Laozi

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

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu

“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

“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