As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Pablo Picasso

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Graham Greene

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

James Whistler

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Jaron Lanier

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Alan Greenspan

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

Stone Gossard

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Randy Newman

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Omar Sharif