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“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
Warren Buffett
“The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another”
George Eliot
“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
“Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Vice is its own reward”
Quentin Crisp
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward”
Baruch Spinoza
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”
Swami Vivekananda