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Mindset Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.”
J.P. Morgan
2.
“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie
3.
“It is the mind that makes the body rich.”
Andrew Carnegie
4.
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie
5.
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”
Andrew Carnegie
6.
“I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them—nine-tenths of them never happened.”
Andrew Carnegie
7.
“I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.”
Andrew Carnegie
8.
“There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.”
Andrew Carnegie
9.
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie
10.
“All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”
Andrew Carnegie
11.
“Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.”
Andrew Carnegie
12.
“Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.”
Andrew Carnegie
13.
“Aim for the highest.”
Andrew Carnegie
14.
“Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt – one goes in looking for the gold.”
Andrew Carnegie
15.
“Any idea that is held in the mind, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.”
Andrew Carnegie
16.
“You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.”
Andrew Carnegie
17.
“If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.”
Andrew Carnegie
18.
“Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”
Andrew Carnegie
19.
“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.”
Andrew Carnegie
20.
“The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.”
Andrew Carnegie
21.
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
22.
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
Andrew Carnegie
23.
“It is trying to be other than one’s self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.”
Andrew Carnegie
24.
“You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.”
Andrew Carnegie
25.
“When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.”
Guy Kawasaki
26.
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
Guy Kawasaki
27.
“Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.”
Guy Kawasaki
28.
“Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.”
Guy Kawasaki
29.
“It doesn’t matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.”
Guy Kawasaki
30.
“Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.”
Guy Kawasaki
31.
“Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: “I need money to buy tools.” You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!”
Guy Kawasaki
32.
“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart.”
Guy Kawasaki
33.
“Trying to minimize weakness doesn’t produce strength.”
Guy Kawasaki
34.
“The hardest thing about getting started is getting started.”
Guy Kawasaki
35.
“Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.”
Guy Kawasaki
36.
“Some things need to be believed to be seen.”
Guy Kawasaki
37.
“Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It’s not how great you start – it’s how great you end up.”
Guy Kawasaki
38.
“Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering.”
Guy Kawasaki
39.
“I don’t “need” the rush to be happy. I’d be perfectly happy without the attention and action.”
Guy Kawasaki
40.
“If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.”
Guy Kawasaki
41.
“There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.”
Guy Kawasaki
42.
“I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'”
Guy Kawasaki
43.
“Not many people agree with what I do.”
Guy Kawasaki
44.
“Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.”
Guy Kawasaki
45.
“Someone once said that death is God’s way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.”
Guy Kawasaki
46.
“Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.”
Guy Kawasaki
47.
“I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.”
Guy Kawasaki
48.
“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”
Guy Kawasaki
49.
“Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.”
Guy Kawasaki
50.
“The next time you think that there’s something that you ‘can’t live without,’ wait for a week and then see if you’re still alive or not.”
Guy Kawasaki
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