A Little Slice of Life

Democracy isn’t just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

- Margaret Thatcher

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer. Just as Northern European countries such as Iceland and Norway have raised the age of retirement, so must every prospering economy. To do otherwise would unjustly burden future generations.

-

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

from Wall Street Journal

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

- Dr. Seuss

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

-

Paulo Coelho

Be polite and generous, but don’t undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

- Aristotle Onassis

There is no substitute for hard work, for doing well at the job you’re in. When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over. But I did it; I didn’t complain. And along the way, I learned a lot, and was ready for the bigger jobs that were around the corner.

- Katie Couric

Don’t borrow to buy a depreciating assets. Almost every consumer product from an iPod to a sofa is worth less the moment you buy it. You are just paying extra for it with a loan. Borrowing, by the way, means taking out a loan, buying it on installment or using your credit card when you don’t have the money to pay off the balance. If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it.

- Damon Darlin

Never be ashamed to ask for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he hears that by asking he will display ignorance.

- Booker T. Washington

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

- Dolly Parton