Sharing a few thought-provoking quotes. I have gathered these quotes from many sources around the web. The first quote is from an unlikely source, but he reveals himself.* And no one was watching or listening, ”The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou

 The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is “the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you.” —Bernard Madoff*

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. —Toni Morrison

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.—Andrew Carnegie

If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganized, your business will be disorganized. If you are greedy, your employees will be greedy, giving you less and less of themselves and always asking for more. —Michael Gerber

Science does not know its debt to imagination. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. —F.K. Richtmeyer

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. —Janis Joplin

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. —Steven D. Woodhull

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. —Robert Brault

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. —Clarence Darrow

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. —Stephen Vincent Benét

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. —Alex Haley

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
—Carl Sandburg