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I admit, just like a person cannot have no money, a person cannot have no luck. However, if you want to make a difference, you cannot wait for luck to patronize. My credo is: I do not live by God-given luck, but I do-so by planning luck. I believe that a good plan will affect luck, and in any case, it can successfully affect luck. My plan to turn competition into cooperation in the oil industry justified this.
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
J. D. Rockefeller
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive.
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
I was also reading the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital3 back
the n, and a ttempted, as best I could, to understand thi s difficult book. During my days as a construction trainee, the young construction workers were clea rly impressed to finally meet someone who had actually read Das Kapital. I read Rathenau , Freud, Weininger , Nietzsche, Rilke,
The Computer My Life
Konrad Zuse
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