William Eckhardt Quotes
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
Quotes to Explore
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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People never notice anything.
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I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?
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I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy.
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The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.
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Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
