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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

17 July

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

16 July

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 July

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca

14 July

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

13 July

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

12 July

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

11 July

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

10 July

There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

9 July

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

8 July

It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

7 July

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

6 July

If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

5 July

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

4 July

Make something people want.

Y Combinator

3 July

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

2 July

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Andrew Carnegie

1 July

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

30 June

Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.

Rumi

29 June

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

28 June

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Tim Ferriss