It takes a crook to catch those crooks.
Kennedy had financed bootlegging operations and had himself been involved in many shady stock deals.
Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
I don't have anyone around me that's not spiritual.
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.
I need someone like me.
I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.
That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.
I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.
Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.
The Internet has made it easier for those who want to attack the American way of life to identify like-minded individuals to carry out their terroristic plans
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.
Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.
University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.'
Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.
I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it's very energetic. It's wonderful.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.