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Alexander The Great approached Success from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Success without inheriting broken mental models.
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough."
"My father will get ahead of me in everything, and will leave nothing great or brilliant for me to show to the world."
"Bury my body and do not build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died."
"I will not hide that I have a great desire for fame."
"It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and die leaving an everlasting fame."
"Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp."
"The end of labor is to achieve great things, which is the only wealth worth pursuing."
"In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done."
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."
"I do not steal victory; I earn it through the wealth of my spirit and the grit of my men."
"You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor."
"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."
"It is better to have no children than to have stupid ones."
"His father is Philip, but his mother is the world."
"I have outlived my enemies and claimed their wealth, but time is the one thing I cannot buy."
"My father left me a kingdom in debt, but I shall leave you an empire of infinite wealth."
"To the most worthy I give the wealth of my sword and my name."
"I have outstripped you in the race of life, and I have claimed the wealth of history."
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
"Great expectations are the fuel of great achievements."
"O fortunate youth, to have found a Homer as the herald of your glory!"
"Great as my empire is, it is not enough for my ambition."
"Is it not a matter of grief that there are so many worlds, and we have not yet conquered one's wealth?"
"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscure wealth."
"There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one."
"Soldiers, I had rather be the first in this little Iberian village than second in Rome."
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