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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.


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RUUD GULLIT If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda"...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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JOSH BILLINGS This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make m...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the p...
BILL VAUGHAN Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the ...
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TONI MORRISON Everyone will say time is money. But once it becomes standard, it won?t take more time or money.
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JOHN CONYERS If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
DAVID GEFFEN Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Oly...
MARY LOU RETTON Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
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RICHARD BRANSON I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create...
KIM BASINGER So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...
JOHN TYLER The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
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DAVID GEFFEN If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restra...
REI KAWAKUBO The government hates freedom because freedom doesn't make money.
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[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility ...
THOMAS A. EDISON My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of an...
NICOLAS MADURO We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting...
NELSON MANDELA We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for ...
LEROY HOOD We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is fre...
RAFAEL CORREA You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in...
JONATHAN POWELL True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress wi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn...
BERNARD CORNWELL When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour...
ANTHONY GIDDENS Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, y...
MAURICE STRONG When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
TED TURNER You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without f...
JAMES ALTUCHER The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are suppos...
ERIK VOORHEES There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate...
FRANCOIS NARS Speed Up...

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DEYTH BANGER Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to ...
DWAYNE JOHNSON Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ...
GARY SHEFFIELD It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant...
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to wo...
OGDEN NASH If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you ...
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IRWIN WINKLER People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're...
MICHEL GONDRY It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most ex...
DEE HOCK We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. Tha...
PAUL HAWKEN Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of t...
GEORGE FOREMAN I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a go...
WILLIAM WYLER A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't ...
MOSHE KAHLON He is speaking about a policy which is similar to the one that Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and [Martin...
SHIMON PERES I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But ...
DIPLO Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON If ballots won't work, bullets will.
MALCOLM X I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever ...
J. A. KONRATH Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the ot...
LOUISE ERDRICH The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the futu...
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NELSON MANDELA It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have cons...
NELSON MANDELA May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
NELSON MANDELA Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
NELSON MANDELA I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
NELSON MANDELA As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
NELSON MANDELA Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.
NELSON MANDELA That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because th...
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom
NELSON MANDELA The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
NELSON MANDELA When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my f...
NELSON MANDELA The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye co...
NELSON MANDELA True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
NELSON MANDELA Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
NELSON MANDELA Courage is not a lack of fear, but instead is continuing to push forward in spite of it!
NELSON MANDELA I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...
NELSON MANDELA As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
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