Charles F. Haanel Quotes

Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

Charles F. Haanel

• Law
• Wealth
• Position
• Equilibrium
• Compensation
• Premature

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• I believe in the power of weakness.

  

  Pat Buckley
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• Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

  

  Flume
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• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
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• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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• I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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• I definitely don't make many friends. It's my choice; I just have a wall. It's not that I have anything against anyone.

  

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• Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

  

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• I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
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• I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

  

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• The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'

  

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• I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

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• The law has no power over heroes.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
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• You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.

  

  Mark Levin
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  • Care

• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Law
  • Wealth
  • Position