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pecuniary \pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee\ Adjective

  1. consisting of or measured in money
  2. of or relating to money

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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

— Uta Hagen

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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Sinclair Lewis

added on: December 02nd, 2005

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Sinclair Lewis

added on: December 02nd, 2005

It is necessary to try to surpass one’s self always: this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Mahatma Ghandi

added on: December 02nd, 2004

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

added on: December 08th, 2003

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

Oscar Wilde

added on: December 07th, 2003

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

added on: December 06th, 2003

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

Isaac Newton

added on: December 05th, 2003

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

added on: December 05th, 2003

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

added on: December 05th, 2003

In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Chester L. Karrass

added on: December 05th, 2003

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

added on: December 05th, 2003

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berri

added on: December 05th, 2003

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added on: December 05th, 2003

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

added on: December 04th, 2003

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

Emmett Fox

added on: December 04th, 2003

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

added on: December 04th, 2003

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Clare Booth Luce

added on: December 04th, 2003

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

added on: December 04th, 2003

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

added on: December 04th, 2003

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

added on: December 04th, 2003

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Jim Rohn

added on: December 04th, 2003

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey

added on: December 04th, 2003

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Les Brown

added on: December 04th, 2003

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Amy Grant

added on: December 04th, 2003

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

added on: December 04th, 2003

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

added on: December 04th, 2003

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.

Warren Buffet

added on: December 04th, 2003

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

added on: December 04th, 2003

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Diana Rankin

added on: December 04th, 2003

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added on: December 04th, 2003

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

added on: December 04th, 2003

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

added on: December 04th, 2003

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Brian Tracy

added on: December 04th, 2003

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Mark Victor Hansen

added on: December 04th, 2003

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

added on: December 04th, 2003

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

added on: December 04th, 2003

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

added on: December 04th, 2003

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen

added on: December 04th, 2003

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

added on: December 04th, 2003

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwab

added on: December 04th, 2003

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain

added on: December 04th, 2003

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

added on: December 04th, 2003

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo

added on: December 04th, 2003

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.

Og Mandino

added on: December 04th, 2003

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

added on: December 04th, 2003

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

added on: December 04th, 2003

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

added on: December 04th, 2003

 

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