Aphorisms
An Wang is known for a number of pithy aphorisms summing up principles based on his experience in business and life. Examples include:
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
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Famous quotes containing the word aphorisms:
“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are addressed, great and lofty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)