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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.


Bruce Jay Friedman

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Or to re...
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MILTON FRIEDMAN The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
SONYA FRIEDMAN “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their...
MILTON FRIEDMAN My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knoc...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN became convinced it's not the best thing to do.
DALE FRIEDMAN We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,
HARRY FRIEDMAN Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You thi...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who do...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We've got a dream team of Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg and they've both delivered yet again.
ROB FRIEDMAN One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship
MILTON FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going t...
DAVID FRIEDMAN If you have got a jacket with a belt, you do not want to leave the belt undone, because it flops aro...
VANESSA FRIEDMAN