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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the
intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by
the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or
bust!

—John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, cofounder of Standard Oil Co., and philanthropist

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

—Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, and naturalist People expect a
certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you’ve
somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

—Richard Thalheimer, founder, CEO, and chairman of the Sharper Image Corp.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and
efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

—Evelyn Underhill, English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist

In the end, you are measured not by how much you undertake but by what you
finally accomplished.

—Donald Trump, real estate developer, author, and presidential candidate If you try to look too far
down the road that stretches mysteriously into the future, you’re liable to trip on a rock; if you
look just past your toes, you’ll miss the bear—always hungry, licking his lips—waiting eagerly