Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Victor Kiam

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severi

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Victor Kiam

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Albert Camus

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt...

Jean Rostand

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forster

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

Dan Fouts

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger, Ev'ry Time We Say G

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles