Inspirational Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

— Charlie Munger

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

— Theodore Zeldin

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

— Theo Paphitis

The past is for reference and not for residence!

— Anonymous

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

— Alison Gopnik

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive…

— Will Durant

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends…

— Max Beerbohm

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

— Seneca the Younger

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

— Elfriede Jelinek

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

— Ibn Khaldun