Is the motive good? Is there no selfish intent?

Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.

When you judge with an altruistic heart, everything works out.

Pricing is management.

Make an effort that yields to no one.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.

-- Seneca

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

-- Hypatia

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

-- Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

-- Bertrand Russell

The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.

-- John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

-- John D. Rockefeller