This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
Behavior | Business | Change | Compensation | Law | Will | Work | Business |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America. Commentators today often talk of "great uncertainty." But think back, for example, to December 6, 1941, October 18, 1987 and September 10, 2001. No matter how serene today may be, tomorrow is always uncertain. Don't let that reality spook you. Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential - a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War - remains alive and effective.
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
Change | Life | Life | Meaning | Opportunity | People | Search | Think |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Change | Organization | Leader |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind-body-ego.
Change | Experience |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
If you could have any job in the world what would it be?
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
All emanates from Source!...You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've been given, the motivation to achieve, and the stuff you've accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence.
Blame | Change | Fault | Focus | Unhappiness | Waste | Will | Fault | Guilty |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
If you think one year ahead – sow a seed. If you think ten years ahead – plant a tree. If you think a hundred years ahead – educate the people.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm...'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.'
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.
Ability | Beauty | Change | Freedom | Health | Mistrust | Oppression | Order | War | Will | Beauty | Think | Understand |
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Absurd | Balance | Change | Education | Fault | Future | Human nature | Inheritance | Looks | Nature | Nothing | Past | Present | Society | Time | Will | Wrong | Theoretical | Society | Fault | Understand |
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
Ability | Change | Exploit | Mind | Mistrust | Will | Wrong | Understand |
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.