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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

17 April

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

16 April

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato

15 April

If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

14 April

Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

13 April

Always deliver more than expected.

Larry Page

12 April

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

11 April

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

10 April

There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

9 April

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

8 April

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.

Michael Dell

7 April

When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Elon Musk

6 April

I will not be triumphed over.

Cleopatra

5 April

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

4 April

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

3 April

You always hear the phrase money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness.

Sergey Brin

2 April

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

1 April

There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer

31 March

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

30 March

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Jeff Bezos

29 March

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller