I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell Copy Share Image
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
