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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby ** The home is immeasurably more important, as a factor in human life, and in national life, than the mart, or the senate, or the pulpit, or any other influence can be. It is in happy homes that the saving virtues of humanity are born and nourished. From such homes, more than from all the pulpits, and all the institutions of learning, there flows an influence for good that sweetens all life, preserves morality, and keeps us human beings fit to live. George Cary Eggleston *** Remember this smoking hot political advice for success seeping upward from Washington corridors: Keep your
eyes peeled ~ Lin Stone In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. ~ Ulysses S. Grant *** It pays to specialize. A jack of all trades is just a blunderer with versatility. ~ Loren D. Estleman If you want to be rich, hire people that can't afford to be poor and don't believe some lucky chant or charm will keep them alive. ~ Lin Stone ** The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. - Peter Drucker ** Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -Robert Orben *** Thousands of people wear out their lives trying to avoid the storms; they would be much happier if they just learned how to dance in the rain. Anon *** There are only two kinds of lucky people in the world; them that don't know it can't be done and them that do know it can. ***
Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job
until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being
supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it;
and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get
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There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ~ Thomas Edison You cannot make progress without making decisions. ~ Jim Rohn
Today It takes courage to cheer the ones picking up a sword to go slay dragons. Applaud those with desires to do good, great or small, Cheer them on with great enthusiasm and before your day on earth is done you will be known to those that matter as one of the noble and great ones. ~ Lin Stone To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Ability is nothing without opportunity. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon Bonaparte One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte *** In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby ** Success does not so much depend on external help as on self-reliance. Abraham Lincoln *** What we need “is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime” Adlai E. Stevenson ** You can say this is what you value as a company, but your compensation system may not really reflect that, especially if you leave compensation decisions to individual managers. ~ Beth A. Livingston Excuses are easy to find. ; they spring upas readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside. ~ James E. Talmadge *** The Fascinating Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. This is easily the most wonderful experience I have ever tried. I have read every word and appreciated every sentence in this book. He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - a motto of Andrew Carnegie, not a quote. Anything in life worth having is worth working for. Andrew Carnegie No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something ~ Andrew Carnegie I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself the master of that line. -Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. ~ Andrew Carnegie Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. - Andrew Carnegie Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. ~ Andrew Carnegie If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. - Andrew Carnegie The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. ~ ~Andrew Carnegie I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind. Andrew Carnegie Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. ~ Andrew Carnegie Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ~ Andrew Carnegie Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter. ~ Andrew Carnegie You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. ~ Andrew Carnegie Those who show willingness to help themselves need not fear about obtaining the help of others. ~ Andrew Carnegie Knowledge is sure to prove useful in one way or another. It always tells. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** Most of the troubles of humanity are imaginary and should be laughed out of court ~ Andrew Carnegie ** A wise man is the confirmed optimist. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it ~ Andrew Carnegie ** How foolish we are not to recognize what we are best fitted for and can perform ~ Andrew Carnegie ** The vain author is easily persuaded that what he has done is meritorious ~ Andrew Carnegie ** What one does easily, one does well ~ Andrew Carnegie If you wish to play peace-maker, seat adversaries next each other where they must begin by being civil. ~ Andrew Carnegie We only hate those whom we do not know. ~ Andrew Carnegie Most quarrels become acute from the parties not seeing and communicating with each other and hearing too much of their disagreement from others. ~ Andrew Carnegie Wise is he who offers the hand of reconciliation should a difference with a friend arise. Unhappy he to the end of his days who refuses it. No possible gain atones for the loss of one who has been a friend even if that friend has become somewhat less dear to you than before. ~ Andrew Carnegie There are times in most men's lives that test whether they be dross or pure gold. ~ Andrew Carnegie It is the decision made in the crisis which proves the man. ~ Andrew Carnegie No man can dishonor me except myself. Honor wounds must be self-inflicted. ~ Andrew Carnegie I recognize voices better than faces, and I am sure that is Gladstone's. ~ Andrew Carnegie -- upon hearing a faint voice, as if a whisper, from a dark shadow. They went back and sure enough, it was Gladstone. Our friend entered the fiery furnace a man and emerged a hero. ~ Andrew Carnegie speaking of Mark Twain. If the Judge within give us a verdict of acquittal as having lived this life well, we have no other Judge to fear. ~ Andrew Carnegie *** it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. ~ Patrick Henry ** whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. ~ Patrick Henry ** Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. ~ Patrick Henry *** Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. ~ Patrick Henry ** We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. ~ Patrick Henry ** Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? ~ Patrick Henry ** There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson *** When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress. John Neeve *** *** No doubt my writings prevented my promotion, as well as grieved my friends, but I could not help it. I had to express my views. ~ Matthew Arnold The man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others. ~ Matthew Arnold There are two things on earth for which no man is ever prepared, and them's twins ~ Matthew Arnold *** When you take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; you can get a better hold and let go when you're a mind to. ~ Josh Billings Of course the critic is a greater man than the author. Any fellow who can point out the mistakes another fellow has made is a darned sight smarter fellow than the fellow who made them. ~ Josh Billings *** Not what I owe to my creditors, but what I owe to myself is the issue. ~ Mark Twain *** Productivity begins by recognizing and valuing your brilliance, time, and space. It starts with awareness of what works and what does not. It continues with examining what needs grease, or other needs. Search for the truth for what you need in order to rev up your writing. *** To my father and my mother I owe my physical being; to you, sir, I owe my intellectual being. At a critical moment you provided the safe paths through the bogs and morasses; you were my teacher. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, speaking to and of Herbert Spencer ** In the field of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur ** Everyone has the will to win. Getting out of bed an hour early to work on it, that's something else. George Cary Eggleston ** The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives., who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. Gordon B. Hinckley ** There's no limit to what a man can do once he makes up his mind he ain't allergic to sweat ~ Elmer Kelton We always try to hate the ones we set out to rob ~ Elmer Kelton *** Don’t worry about believing in yourself or doing it right; just do it. Do it and get better. Tellman Knudsen *** Cheer up. The worst is yet to be and I just wish I could take you with me when I go because I've wasted a lot of my time finding situations too tough to bear and proving I could handle it. ~ Lin Stone Rule For
Success #1 *** Relatives will only loan you money if they love you too much to care what you are doing to yourself. *** Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.- Euripides ** A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -- Robert Frost ** Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Patton *** Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt. *** If you want to make enemies, try to change something. - Woodrow Wilson ** Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Calvin Coolidge If you see ten problems, nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. Calvin Coolidge We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge ** It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. ~ Henry Ford Don't find fault, find a remedy. ~ Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~ Henry Ford Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ~ Henry Ford A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. ~ Henry Ford I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ~ Henry Ford ** The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster ** Do not let what you can't do interfere
with what you can do. -John Wooden *** There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. Samuel Butler ** The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. ~ Oscar Wilde *** Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein *** The result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer ** There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. It is work that spells the difference in life. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us up from mediocrity. ***
Man makes his own history.
*** The logical end of defensive warfare is surrender. ~ Napoleon *** Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. Jim Rohn *** The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. ~ Margaret Thatcher *** Reaching Perfection Often Requires One to walk a long, lonely road. ~ Lin Stone Too many poor people are working themselves to death because they can’t afford to live. ~ Lin Stone You're damned if you do, damned if you don't - and if they ever hire a lawyer you've really had it. ~ Lin Stone Any time I feel uncomfortable I know I'm making progress Never save your way into bankruptcy Do not settle for being half a millionaire Miracles do still happen today. Maybe the Red Sea hasn't parted for me lately, but the housing market has opened up. ~ Lin Stone *** Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Hard times pass by quicker when you are unconscious. Leif Enger *** Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch ** |
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If I will just make myself listen to someone long enough they are sure to confess what makes them great. Lin Stone ** Henry David Thoreau~ How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. John Hay~ True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. Ross Hersey~ Look not back in anger nor forward in fear but around you in awareness. If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up. ~ Les Brown You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body - C S Lewis They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~ Thomas Edison Jane Wagner~ All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge ~ There can be no national greatness which does not rest upon the integrity of the people. Albert Einstein ~ Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn ones living at it No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ~ Andrew Carnegie Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** Caesar “It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. ~ Caesar ** The little molehills you complain about holding you back today will be forgotten tomorrow when you see the mountain they were hiding. ~ Lin Stone My Daddy taught me as a young man to miss a meal or so if I had to but don't let anything get in the way of showing my boss how much faith I had that his check would be good. My Grandpa could outwork 3 men if the job required some thinking or organizing. My Daddy could outwork 2; I was 55 years old before I met any 1 that could outwork me. But history repeats itself; I've now got 1 kid that can outwork 2, 3 and sometimes 4. When the job requires straight thinking she can outwork 10. You might as well tell your boss to keep his money if you can't convince yourself your job is worth doing. ~ Lin Stone. Some folks brag on Alexander, some prefer Caesar, and others swear Napoleon would have conquered the world if he hadn't had a catatonic seizure at Waterloo -- but a little country girl never lost a battle when she faced the English army that mere men had been fighting for 100 years -- and she hurled that army all the way out of France. The only reason she was burned at the stake was that somebody started the rumor she used witchcraft. Since prayer had never worked for them, the judges bought the idea. ~ Lin Stone I'm sure there is a moral in there somewhere. ** Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~ Thomas Edison All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers that woke up and went to work. ~ Lin Stone Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes He who laughs last thinks slowest. Ian McKenzie Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. ~ Jim Rohn A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts both his feats in it. ~ Henry Ford Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. ~ Henry Ford Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. ~ Thomas Edison Be not the first by which the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. anon *** Small minds belittle famous people. Mediocre minds remember how different famous events would have turned out if only they'd been in charge there. Great minds pause and listen to ideas that will never be forgotten. I sure wish I could remember who said that. ~ Lin Stone *** A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. Earl Nightingale *** Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs - Apple ** Solid Success usually starts small, learns the ropes, and then works HARD. ~ Lin Stone ** Why are happy people not afraid of death, while the insatiable and the unhappy so abhor that grim feature? George Ade *** What would chairs look like if our knees buckled the other way? ** I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. Will Rogers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there -Will Rogers If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. Will Rogers *** I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton ** Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger ** Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Og Mandino ** We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. Bernard Mannes Baruch *** Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser *** Say it with flowers. Patrick F. O'Keefe *** If you suspect she won't believe why you are a day late or a dollar short, don't say nothing. Just send flowers and sign your name. She'll get the message, and call to say she loves you. ** 1 cent more and 100% better. Arby's *** If I ever feel too short I stand on my wallet. Dan Lok *** Economic distress will teach man, if anything can, that realities are less dangerous than fantasies, that fact-finding is more effective than fault-finding. Carl Lotus Backer *** Why do we have so many bad periods in the economy? From what I have learned in business, and from what I have seen in Washington, the hard questions rarely get asked during the good times. Joe Scott *** The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. Carl Lotus Backer *** To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them." John H. Patterson *** Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. ~ Herbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. ~ Herbert Spencer Most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ~ Herbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. ~ Herbert Spencer *** I walked a mile with Pleasure
She chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser
For what she had to say. Success does not so much depend on external help as on self-reliance. Abraham Lincoln *** One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. ~Vincent T. Foss ** If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack." - Anonymous ** If you lost everything you had today, how many of those things would you work for again? ~ Lin Stone You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Jonathan Swift *** The labor union is an elemental response to the human instinct for group action in dealing with group problems. William Green *** Be humble as you Become Wealthy and use your wealth to Create Goodness. Ryuho Okawa *** The bread of the stranger is bitter and his staircase hard to climb. Dante *** All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Alford E Smith *** I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. John Wayne *** If chance could fashion but a little flower, With perfume for each tiny thief, And furnish it with sunshine and with shower, Then chance would be creator, with the power To build a world for unbelief. Fred Emerson Brooks *** I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeller Jr. *** In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein *** Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Robert Frost *** Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost *** He who loves war, for the sake of its excitements, its pageantry, and its fancied glory, is the most eminent of all the dupes of folly and of sin. He who loathes war, with inexpressible loathing, who will do everything in his power to avert the dire and horrible calamity, but who will, nevertheless, in the last extremity, with a determined spirit, encounter all its perils, from love of country and of home, who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well being of his fellow-man, will ever receive the homage of the world, and we also fully believe that he will receive the approval of God. JOHN S.C. ABBOTT *** No one can build his security upon (the) nobleness of another person. Willa Cather *** There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather *** A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something. Wilson Mizsner *** Life is just one damned thing after another. Frank Ward O'Malley *** Marriage is that relation between man and woman where the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Louis Kaufman *** The general that chases two armies catches hell. ~ Lin Stone *** Hard work is the daily duty of the soldier of peace. ** A healthy bank account is a smart man's tool chest. ** It is worth a man's while to make enemies by doing right. ** Forgery is what Milton saw when he was blind. Don Marquis *** With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the progress of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor laws; our medical experts exert their utmost skill to save the lives of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who from weak constitutions would have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Charles Darwin *** Yeah, but you know, them savages are still stuck in the same spot they occupied 10,000 years ago while them that breed domestic animals wind up with cats too long to skin and dogs with so many problems in their mouth they need their own dentist. *** He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. Aristotle ** The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way. Henry Miller *** No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ** If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll ** Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes ** One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -Arnold Glasgow ** Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein ** Books on biology change constantly, likewise books on psychology, and yet they are held before the students as better authority than the unchanging Word of God. William Jennings Bryan *** An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. ~ Don Marquis*** Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis *** I have noticed that when chickens stop quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race. Don Marquis *** There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble in running any country. If you are president all the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people. Don Marquis *** The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. Don Marquis *** That's all there is; there isn't any more. Ethel Barrymore *** I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein *** I cannot believe that God plays dice with the Cosmos. Albert Einstein *** It takes a genius to see the obvious. Albert Einstein *** An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein *** For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." — Ralph Waldo Emerson ** If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa ** You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero ** The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. -Napoleon Hill ** Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." — Dr. Seuss ** History is written by the victors. ~ W. Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. ~ W. Churchill *** The Conceited Man brags about what he will do. The Confident Man smiles because he knows he has already done it once and means to do it again if it was worthwhile. Lin Stone ** Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein *** All I know is just what I read in the papers. Will Rogers *** I've never met a man I didn't like. Will Rogers *** There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get them off the thing that he was educated in. Will Rogers *** The Republicans have their split right after an election and democrats have their's just before an election. Will Rogers *** There is a lot of difference in pioneering for gold and pioneering for spinach. Will Rogers *** If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner ~ Nelson Mandela ** The only source of knowledge is experience ~ Albert Einstein ** man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true ~ Napoleon Hill ** Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment ~ C.S. Lewis ** Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities. ~ Winston Churchill ** Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. ~ Paulo Coelho ** The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. ~ E. Nightingale ** Donald Trump “The point is that you can’t be too greedy. “ ** It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle ** I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. - Bob Hope After all is said and done, more is said than done. - Aesop ** A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley ** Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. - Aeschylus ** One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. ~ Dale Carnegie ** Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner ** Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game. ~ David Allen ** Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ~ Thomas Edison ** Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. - David Letterman ** The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin ** The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** "The taxes of the Nation must be reduced now as much as prudence will permit,.." Calvin Coolidge ** It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Da Vinci ** Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce ** Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor ** There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** A lifelong promise made & kept "(I vowed ) never to purchase what I did not pay for, and never to sell what I did not own" ~ Andrew Carnegie ** There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens ** "Little did we know that we would be referring to the Jimmy Carter years as the good old days." Mitt Romney ** The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. ~ Mitt Romney ** New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forest, mountains and deserts of the United States. Simeon Strunsky *** Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson *** Always Short + Always Opinionated + Always Use Vivid Comparisons = Always Be Quoted. ~ Steve Harrison *** Never tell a lawyer anything until it is too late. Vivien Kellems *** When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Otto von Bismarck *** What would have been the fate of the Church if the early Christians had had as little faith as many of our Christians of to-day? And, if the Christians of to-day had the faith of the martyrs, how long would it be before the prophecy were fulfilled--"every knee shall bow and every tongue confess" William Jennings Bryan *** When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. R. H. Grant **
I have worked so hard this morning that I
soared over the point of perspiration. Lin Stone The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery ** I don't believe reincarnation is very successful; I had this same job last time. ** Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato
First you owe it to yourself to be a success in life; then you owe it to the IRS. ** He went up against the wall so often the writing was on him. ** He was an outstanding student that made the top half look important. ** He was at his wit's end, but it was a short trip. ** One time he stole a car and took up making the payments ** Sometimes when he makes a speech I think he had his ears pierced too deep. ** Let us toast the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed. ~ Mark Twain ** He saw this bumper sticker that said, SMILE, BE HAPPY, and doggone me if his wife didn't hire a private detective to find out what was going on. ** Life is what you make it, until some landlubber comes along and steals your boat. ** If at first you don't succeed failure may be just your thing. ~ Milton Berle ** The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - B.C. Forbes ** If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. - Abigail Van Buren *** The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ~ Dale Carnegie *** The foremost qualification for success is the proper selection of one's grandparents. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~ John Neeve A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~ Henry Ford |
