Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction. Arthur C.Brooks
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. Arthur C.Brooks
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship. Arthur C.Brooks
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone. Arthur C.Brooks
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. Arthur C.Brooks
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage. Jonathan Ames
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was. Jonathan Ames
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me. Jonathan Ames
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. Jonathan Ames
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days. Jonathan Ames
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write. Kate DiCamillo
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. Kate DiCamillo
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore. Kate DiCamillo
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. Kate DiCamillo
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. Kate DiCamillo
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. Barry Larkin
I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting. Barry Larkin
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. Jawaharlal nehru
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. Jawaharlal nehru