"The toughest
thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
-Irving Berlin
"Good
judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
-Evan
Hardin
"It is
amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S. Truman
"I don't know
the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there."
-Will Rogers
"Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, "On the
one hand...on the other."
-Harry Truman
"The men who
try to do something and fail are infinitley better than those who try to do
nothing and succeed."
-Lloyd
Jones
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge..."
-Albert Einstein
"One machine
can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one
extraordinary man."
-Elbert
Hubbard
"I despise
what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire
"Success is
to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by
the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed."
-Booker
T. Washington
"The best way
to keep your word is not to give it."
-Napoleon
"Love
heightens all sences-except the common."
-Mark
Twain
"First they
ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
-Gandhi
"Our greatest
glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius-
"I haven't
failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
-Thomas
Edison
"Apply
yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't
just stand there, make it happen."
-Lee
Iacocca
"Nothing we
learn in this world is ever wasted."
-Eleanor
Roosevelt
"The income
tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
-Will
Rogers
"The reward
of a thing well done is to have done it."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is
impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
-A. H.
Weller-
"Morale is
faith in the man at the top."
-Albert S. Johnstone-
"It is well
to think well; it is divine to act well."
-Horace
Mann-
"When
speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four."
-Samuel
Johnson-
"Truth is
like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
-Elvis
Presley-
"Anyone who
says businessmen deal only in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year
projections."
-Malcolm
Forbes-
"What is a
committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the
unnecessary."
-Richard Harkness-
"It is never
too late to be what you might have been."
-T. S.
Eliot-
"It is
neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give
happiness."
-Thomas
Jefferson-
"All the ills
of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
-Alfred E. Smith-
"Happiness is
as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you
will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne-
"In the
takeover business, if you want a friend, buy a dog."
-Carl
Icahn-
"It's pretty hard to tell what does
bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
-Kin Hubbard-
"I do not believe you can do
today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
-Nelson Jackson-
"People seldom want to walk over
you until you lie down."
-Elmer Wheeler-
"Happiness makes up in height what
it lacks in length."
-Robert Frost-
"Always remember that this whole
thing started with a mouse."
-Walt Disney
"To accomplish great things we must
not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France
"It is our duty to proceed as
though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The tragedy of life is not that it
ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis
"That is what learning is. You
suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new
way."
-Doris Lessing-
"We are all manufacturers - making
good, making trouble, making excuses."
-H. V. Adolt
"Speculator: One who bought stocks
that went down."
-Malcolm Forbes
"You can't do anything about the
length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
-Evan Esar
"Whenever you find that you are on
the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
-Mark Twain
"I don't want any yes-men around
me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
-Samuel Goldwyn
"Who controls the past controls the
future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
"I realized early on that success
was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to
other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who
came in on the bus with you."
-Harrison Ford
"The only thing wrong with
immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
-Herb Caen
"Fundamental progress has to do
with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
-Alfred North Whitehead
"The strongest man in the world is
he who stands alone."
-Henrik Ibsen
"'Tis is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change."
-Charles Darwin
"Genius is eternal patience."
-Michaelangelo
"Success usually comes to those who
are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
"I never wear a watch, because I
always know it's now -- and now is when you should do it."
-Steve Mariucci
"If computers get too powerful, we
can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
-Bradley's Bromide
"Fortune does not change men, it
unmasks them."
-Suzanne Necker
"Being in the army is like being in
the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
-Blake Clark
Women who seek to be equal with men
lack ambition
- Timothy Leary
"Worry is interest paid on trouble
before it comes due."
-William R. Inge
"He that is of the opinion money
will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
-Benjamin Franklin
"When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems
like as hour. That's relativity."
-Albert Einstein
"Love: A temporary insanity curable
by marriage."
-Ambrose Bierce
"He has achieved success who has
worked well, laughed often and loved much."
-Elbert Hubbard
"Advice: The suggestions you give
someone else which you hope will work for your benefit."
-Ambrose Bierce
"The trouble with most of us is
that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."
-Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
"The secret of genius is to carry
the spirit of childhood into maturity."
-Thomas Henry Huxley
"One can advise comfortably from a
safe port."
-Johann Friedrich
"The secret of health for both mind
and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate
troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
-Buddha
"Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day of the year ."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some people make headlines while
others make history."
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
"Life has a way of creating
roadblocks that end up as building blocks in our lives."
- Doug Firebaugh
"Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always
write a book."
- Ronald Reagan
"You can clutch the past so tightly
to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."
- Jan Glidewell
"If people only knew how hard I
work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
"Advice is what we ask for when we
already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
"The day you take complete
responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you
start your move to the top."
- O. J. Simpson
"Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
"To them that ask, where have you
seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so
devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet
I respect and honor it."
-Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Initiative consists of doing the
right thing without being told."
-Irving Mack
"When it is not necessary to make a
decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."
-Lord Falkland
"Success is the ability to go from
one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"The more man meditates upon good
thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
-Confucius
"Whatever you do, or dream you can
do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People are not truly
self-governing unless they are free to fail."
-Stephen R. Covey
"I have found that being honest is
the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to
accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."
- Lee Iacocca
"The greater the obstacle, the more
glory in overcoming it."
- Moliere
"Everyone should have two mentors:
someone twice their age and someone half their age."
- Jennifer Corriero
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That man is the richest whose
pleasures are the cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau
"A consultant is someone who saves
his client almost enough to pay his fee."
- Arnold H. Glasgow
"Do what you feel in your heart to
be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
"Things may come to those who
wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln
"If you're going through hell, keep
going."
- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
"Nothing succeeds like the
appearance of success."
- Christopher Lasch
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden
in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Pamela Vaull Starr
"Don't be afraid of the space
between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
- Belva Davis
"In your heart, keep one still
secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow."
- Louise Driscoll
"I don't think there is a new
economy. I think there are new tools for the conomy."
- Michael Bloomberg
"We should not let our fears hold
us back from pursuing our hopes."
- John F. Kennedy
"If you can't accept losing, you
can't win."
- Vince Lombardi
"Never trust the advice of a man in
difficulties."
- Aesop
"When it is not necessary to make a
decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."
- Lord Falkland
"It is unfortunate we can't buy
many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they
think they are worth."
- Malcolm Forbes
"The way I see it, if you want the
rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
"You aren't wealthy until you have
something money can't buy."
- Garth Brooks
"There is nothing worse than a
sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
- Ansel Adams
"Never make a defense or an apology
until you are accused."
- King Charles I, of England
"Put up a new service on the Net,
and if it works, it's a product. If it doesn't, it's market research."
- Bill Campbell
"If it was an overnight success, it
was one long, hard, sleepless night."
- Dicky Barrett
"Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed."
- Jonathan Swift
"Don't let other people tell you
what you want."
- Pat Riley
"Most human beings have an almost
infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
- Aldous Huxley
"The greatest weakness of all is
the great fear of appearing weak."
- Jacques Benigne Bossuet
"Failure is the condiment that
gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
"I love my past. I love my present.
I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
- Colette
"A failure is a man who has
blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience."
- Elbert Hubbard
"The more I want to get something
done, the less I call it work."
- Richard Bach
"If you can't stand the heat, get
out of the kitchen."
- Harry Truman
"Every minute you spend in planning
saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!"
- Brian Tracy
"A life spent making mistakes is
not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Always be nice to people on your
way up. Because you will meet the same people on the way down."
- Wilson Mizner
"Always behave like a duck - keep
calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacob Braude
"A professional is someone who can
do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."
- Alistair Cooke
"Never stand begging for that which
you have the power to earn."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but
look at the world through the eyes of a child."
- Ron Wild
"Many a man owes his success to his
first wife and his second wife to his success."
- Jim Backus
"Success is a
lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
"Lost time is never found again."
-Benjamin Franklin