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The drastic changes and improved performance under Pekka’s stewardship is clearly evident, opportunities in 5G, misfortunes of others and focus on key products have helped reignite the business. – Paolo Pescatore	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall. – Vicente Lim	added by MuerteEnCuatroActos 5 years ago
In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family? – Marie Antoinette	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
If we learn how to eliminate the destructive upshots of matters and events, we can bounce back from misfortunes and spring back into shape. Grumbling and trailing on the ground are only a waste of time. ("Steaming ahead" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 7 years ago
this is a world of sorrows and misfortunes but the emeralds of hopes and efforts are still glittering – reemapandita	added by anonymous 7 years ago
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. – Aesop	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. – Tacitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. – Virgil	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want. – Burton	added by anonymous 12 years ago
And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.(Et l’amour, c’est deux malheurs Qui ensemble font un bonheur) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. – Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. – William Cobbett	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. – William Cobbett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The drastic changes and improved performance under Pekka’s stewardship is clearly evident, opportunities in 5G, misfortunes of others and focus on key products have helped reignite the business.

– Paolo Pescatore

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall.

– Vicente Lim

added by MuerteEnCuatroActos
5 years ago

In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family?

– Marie Antoinette

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

If we learn how to eliminate the destructive upshots of matters and events, we can bounce back from misfortunes and spring back into shape. Grumbling and trailing on the ground are only a waste of time. ("Steaming ahead" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
7 years ago

this is a world of sorrows and misfortunes but the emeralds of hopes and efforts are still glittering

– reemapandita

added by anonymous
7 years ago

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

– Washington Irving