Luis Ponce

“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" ~ John D. Rockefeller”
― John D. Rockefeller

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It is one thing to stand on the comfortable ground of placid inaction and put forth words of cynical wisdom, and another to plunge into the work itself and through strenuous experience earn the right to express strong conclusions.”
― John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
― Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richard's Almanack