“The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 42
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew.”
— Markus Zusak, book The Book Thief
Variant: Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
Source: The Book Thief
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