I have never cared much about titles—it did not bother me who had the title so long as I ran the company.Harvey S. Firestone
You must keep control, if you cannot control yourself, then you have no chance of controlling others.Michael Caine
It is possible - given absolute control over the media and the police - to rewrite the memories of hundreds of millions of people… It works to erase public memory of profound political mistakes, and thus to guarantee their eventual repetition.Carl Sagan
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.Tony Robbins
You don’t need to have an opinion about everything. Don’t get worked up about things you can’t control. These things didn’t ask for your attention. Leave them alone.Marcus Aurelius
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will.Milton Friedman
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.Eliud Kipchoge
When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?Sara Blakely
Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.Irving Layton
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.Charles Baudelaire
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.Clint Eastwood
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.Roy T. Bennett
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.Roy T. Bennett
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.Joe Strummer
Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools such as printing money, debt, subsidies, controlling the interest rate, price controls and regulations to correct the so-called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.Javier Milei
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.P. T. Barnum