Aaron Mendo > Aaron's Quotes

Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6278 likes

#2

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, life, war

3904 likes

#3

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

2547 likes

#4

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

220 likes

#5

“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: application, doing, learning

215 likes

#6

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

tags: awakening, help-self, quotes, quotes-i-love, quotes-on-life, quotes-that-make-sense, quotes-to-define-my-life, self-awareness, self-empowerment, self-help, self-improvement, self-power, self-preservation, self-realization, strength-of-mind, weakness

385 likes

#7

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

tags: choice, education, mind, thought

478 likes

#8

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

452 likes

#9

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

324 likes

#10

“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: common-sense, directional, hard-work

319 likes

#11

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

tags: individualism

148 likes

#12

“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, statism, voluntaryism

90 likes

#13

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.”
― Ludwig Von Mises

97 likes

#14

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization”
― Ludwig von Mises

71 likes

#15

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.”
― Ludwig Von Mises

tags: economics, liberalism, marxism, society

63 likes

#16

“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.”
― Ludwig Von Mises

60 likes

#17

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

tags: economics

52 likes

#18

“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

48 likes

#19

“The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

43 likes

#20

“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

tags: capitalism, economics, leisure, luxury, wealth

28 likes

#21

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: economics, profit

32 likes

#22

“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, communism, force, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, totalitarianism, voluntaryism

41 likes

#23

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”
― Carl Menger

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, central-banks, coercion, economics, federal-reserve, free, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, market, non-aggression-principle, slavery, statism, taxation, trade, voluntaryism

21 likes

#24

“When I discussed the nature of value, I observed that value is nothing inherent in goods and that it is not a property of goods. But neither is value an independent thing. There is no reason why a good may not have value to one economizing individual but no value to another individual under different circumstances. The measure of value is entirely subjective in nature, and for this reason a good can have great value to one economizing individual, little value to another, and no value at all to a third, depending upon the differences in their requirements and available amounts. What one person disdains or values lightly is appreciated by another, and what one person abandons is often picked up by another.”
― Carl Menger, Principles of Economics

tags: economics, pricing, value

10 likes

#25

“It is natural that the appearance of pollution should have taken by surprise an economic science which has delighted in playing around with all kinds of mechanistic models. Curiously, even after the event economics gives no signs of acknowledging the role of natural resources in the economic process. Economists still do not seem to realize that, since the product of the economic process is waste, waste is an inevitable result of that process and ceteris paribus increases in greater proportion than the intensity of economic activity.”
― Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process

tags: economics, pollution, waste

6 likes

#26

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches

1196 likes

#27

“No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

38 likes

All Quotes

Aaron Mendo > Aaron's Quotes

Tags From Aaron’s Quotes