Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.
La oportunidad es una diosa arrogante que no malgasta el tiempo con los que no están preparados.
Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.
If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not obs...
I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and...
Gold bringeth unto its possessor responsibility and a changed position with hisfellow men. It bringeth fear lest he lose it or it be tricked away from him. Itbringeth a feeling of power and ability to...
En aquellas cosas hacia las cuales dirigimos nuestros mejores esfuerzos, tenemos éxito.
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.
Demasiadas veces los jóvenes creen que los viejos sólo conocen la sabiduría de los tiempos pasados y de esa manera no sacan provecho de ella. Pero recuerda esto: el sol que brilla ahora es el mismo qu...
Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires.
ولكن عليك أن تتذكر أن الشمس التي تشرق اليوم هي نفس الشمس التي كانت تشرق عندما جاء والدك إلى الحياة، وستظل تشرق عندما يموت آخر أحفادك. ثم أردف قائلاً: إن أفكار الشباب هي أضواء ساطعة تلمع بعيداً، تماماً...
ولكن الفرصة لا تنتظر الإنسان المماطل. فهي ترى أن هذا الإنسان إذا كان يرغب في أن يكون محظوظاً، فسيتخذ إجراءً سريعاً. وأي إنسان لن يتصرف بسرعة عندما تواتيه الفرصة، فإنه سيكون مماطلاً كبيراً، تماماً
إن كان المرء يحمل في نفسه روح العبد، أفلن يصبح عبداً بعد ذلك، مهما كانت حالته عند مولده، تماماً كما أن الماء لا بد أن يستقر على حال؟ وإذا كان المرء يحمل في نفسه روح الرجل الحر، أفلن يصبح في موضع احترا...
What each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself w...
Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.
This, then, is the sixth cure for a lean purse. Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.
The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that t...
That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.