We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John Le Carr

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Rene Redzepi

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Tomas Transtromer

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

American Indian Proverb

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Lech Walesa

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

Anthony Bourdain

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

- Cette métaphore est interdite pendant le vol, a-t-elle déclaré un instant plus tard.

John Green

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Ron Chernow