“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
"Learn to think continentally."
- Alexander Hamilton
Awareness
"Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country."
- Alexander Hamilton
Awareness
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
Belief
"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
Belief
"Bestowing representation on the basis of equal representation rather than population contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority must prevail."
- Alexander Hamilton
Balance
"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
- Michael Larsen
Hard Work
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work