Maramani Quotes & Sayings

What is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. — Bertrand Russell

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. — William Least Heat-Moon

Everyone has one - an inventory of lost things waiting to be found. Yearning to be acknowledged for the worth they once held in your life. — Lang Leav

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life. — Noam Chomsky

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better. — Debra Wilson

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden. — Narendra Modi

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails. — Vinita Kinra

We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one. — Thich Thien-An

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it. — Benjamin Graham

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes. — Charlie Batch