#import

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. ↗

— David Packard

#assume #being #cause #company #deeper

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#fear #i #important #life #more

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#impact #important #lives #people #real

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#importance #life

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying 'hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. ↗

— John Green

#intelligent #nerd #thoughtful #intelligence

Love: fact of bringing up a person into a high level of importance in your life. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#high #importance #life #love #person

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. ↗

— Roy Romer

#american #american dream #available #before #challenges

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lord-illingworth #oscar-wilde #forgiveness

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#achieving #become #get #goals #important

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. ↗

— John Wooden

#game #important #starts #who