Philanthropists From The United States

"The best time to launch your new company was a year ago; the second-best time is now."

"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will."

"The third of the twelve truths in this book is that you must accept that fear is good."

"You have the power to change the world and your only fear should be wasting the opportunity while you have the time to wield it."

"You cannot live forever, but what you create and build in your lifetime can."

"The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude."

"Obstacles, not products, are the source of creating wealth."

"Too many people’s careers are ruined by praise instead of propelled by criticism."

"Be thankful you have problems because they are the key to your salvation."

"Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death."

"Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success."

"The true potential of an augmented life is revealed when it provides us with the information we need, at exactly the right time and place."

"The first truth you must accept for Future Proofing You is that nothing can be achieved without a growth mindset."

"No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators."

"Wealth that can last generations can now be attained in the shortest time ever in history."

"Most of your life you have been told to get the safe and steady job by people who had given up on their dreams years before you came along."

"There are two reasons most people don’t attain wealth: they didn’t think they were smart enough to get rich and they were never taught how to create wealth."

"Our world is fundamentally different from the one we were taught about in school."

"Attitude is something each one of us can learn to enhance and control."

"Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success."

"School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company."

"Your future -our world's future- is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize."

"No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference."

"A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy."

"No leader got there by following another's path. Better to walk alone than follow a crowd going in the wrong direction."

"Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor, because in a most Zenlike fashion, the content is controlled by all and none at the sme time."

"Are you truly living life or just paying bills until you die?"

"Unfortunately, growing up with a zero-sum perspective is like a horse wearing blinders – it limits the field of view for opportunity."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves."

"Those who recognize the inevitability of changes stand to benefit the most."

"What's at the heart of all sales and marketing: creating demand even in the absence of logic."

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

"The customer is always right. Even when they're wrong."

"The most important tool you have on a resume is language."

"Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise."

"Solve for others to solve for you."

"Billions of dollars in research knowledge lie dormant at universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business."

"You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at."

"Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't."

"A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage."

"The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse."

"Working hard doesn’t make you rich, working smart does."

"Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it."

"You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up."

"You will win every race as long as you are the only runner on the track."

"Although John Hancock's bold signature on the Declaration of Independence is a national symbol — indeed, his name is a synonym for the word "signature" — Hancock remains among the least known of America's founding fathers. A huge Boston life insurance company emblazons his name on its glass skyscraper, a World War II aircraft carrier carried his name into battle on its bow, and thousands of Americans walk along Hancock Streets and Avenues — but few know much, if anything, about him."

"There, I guess King George will be able to read that!"

"There is a heartfelt satisfaction in reflecting on our exertions for the public weal, which all the sufferings an enraged tyrant can inflict will never take away; which the ingratitude and reproaches of those whom we have saved from ruin cannot rob us of. The virtuous asserter of the rights of mankind merits a reward, which even a want of success in his endeavors to save his country, the heaviest misfortune which can befall a genuine patriot, cannot entirely prevent him from receiving. I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for liberty will terminate gloriously for America. And let us play the man for our God, and for the cities of our God; while we are using the means in our power, let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe, who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity. And having secured the approbation of our hearts, by a faithful and unwearied discharge of our duty to our country, let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of him who raiseth up and pulleth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as he pleases; and with cheerful submission to his sovereign will, devoutly say: "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet we will rejoice in the Lord, we will joy in the God of our salvation.""

"I have always, from my earliest youth, rejoiced in the felicity of my fellow-men; and have ever considered it as the indispensable able duty of every member of society to promote, as far as in him lies, the prosperity of every individual, but more especially of the community to which he belongs; and also, as a faithful subject of the State, to use his utmost endeavors to detect, and having detected, strenuously to oppose every traitorous plot which its enemies may devise for its destruction. Security to the persons and properties of the governed is so obviously the design and end of civil government, that to attempt a logical proof of it would be like burning tapers at noonday, to assist the sun in enlightening the world; and it cannot be either virtuous or honorable to attempt to support a government of which this is not the great and principal basis; and it is to the last degree vicious and infamous to attempt to support a government which manifestly tends to render the persons and properties of the governed insecure. Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny."

"A well-disciplined militia is a safe, an honorable guard to a community like this, whose inhabitants are by nature brave, and are laudably tenacious of that freedom in which they were born. From a well-regulated militia we have nothing to fear; their interest is the same with that of the State. When a country is invaded, the militia are ready to appear in its defense; they march into the field with that fortitude which a consciousness of the justice of their cause inspires; they do not jeopard their lives for a master who considers them only as the instruments of his ambition, and whom they regard only as the daily dispenser of the scanty pittance of bread and water. No; they fight for their houses, their lands, for their wives, their children; for all who claim the tenderest names, and are held dearest in their hearts; they fight pro aris et focis, for their liberty, and for themselves, and for their God."