Great Quotations 023

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson

Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
Franklin P. Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams

Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
Scott Adams

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.*
*Attribution questionable.
Scott Adams

Executives can get away with having a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough.
Scott Adams

Nothing defines human beings better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.
Scott Adams

The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
Scott Adams

I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Gianni Agnelli

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali

Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Saul Alinsky

A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen

It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frédéric Amiel

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it ... it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you.
Kingsley Amis

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
A Treasury of Humorous Quotations
Anonymous

A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.
BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote
Anonymous

Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb
Anonymous

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote
Anonymous

If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine as old as the fish, and the fish as young as the maid, and the maid as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal.
BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote
Anonymous

Some time when you're feeling important
Some time when your ego's in bloom
Some time when you feel you are
The best qualified man in the room,
Some time when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles the soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water
Place your hands in it up to your wrists
Take them out and the hole that remains
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.
You may splash all you like as they enter
You may stir up the water galore
But take them out and in just a moment
It will look just the same as before.
The moral of this is quite simple
Just do the best that you can.
Be proud of yourself but remember
There is no indispensable man.
Cassell's Humorous Quotations
Anonymous

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Russian Proverb
Anonymous

There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.
Time Magazine
Anonymous

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Ronald Reagan's office.
Anonymous

What the brassière said to the top hat: You go on ahead while I give these two a lift.
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book
Anonymous

You ain't learnin' nothing when you're talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson's office.
Anonymous

Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim

One lesson a man learns from Harvard Business School is that an executive is only as good as his health.
Jeffrey Archer

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris

Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
Aristotle

Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.
Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith

At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end,
The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
W. H. Auden

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
W. H. Auden

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Aupumut

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.
Richard D'Aveni

Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Oswald Avery

Salad. I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know. Have you noticed? You start one side of your plate and by the time you've got to the other, there's a fresh crop of lettuce taken root and sprouted up.
Alan Ayckbourn

Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the soft word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard David Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
Arthur Baer

By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman - to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.
Walter Bagehot

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.
Walter Bagehot

The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.
Walter Bagehot

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Honoré de Balzac

When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
Jill Barad

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
Judith M. Bardwick

You can't permit a honeymoon of small changes over a year or two. A long series of small changes just prolongs the pain.
Percy Barnevik

There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum

Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Roseanne Barr

You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The largest profits go to those businesses which most devotedly follow a policy of insisting on a competitive advantage, no matter how small, for every product or service they market.
R. H. Beeby

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Henry Ward Beecher

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Max Beerbohm

Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
There is no cure for this disease.
Hilaire Belloc

I never sleep through a performance. I always make sure that I am awake for the intermission.
Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
Alan Bennett

You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you ... if you can eat a boiled egg at ninety in England they think you deserve a Nobel Prize.
Alan Bennett

The rough broad difference between the American and the European business man is that the latter is anxious to leave his work, while the former is anxious to get to it.
Arnold Bennett

Copying other organizations' activities sounds like industrial espionage to some people, but the truth is that benchmarking is perfectly legal and ethical.
Warren Bennis

Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.
Warren Bennis

The only way many companies can attract and keep the best people is by offering them more than merely money or prestige - they offer them the chance to make history.
Warren Bennis

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.
Warren Bennis

All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham

Accounting issues did not cause Enron's stock price to fall - its failed business model did.
Joseph Berardino

All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you ... Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan

If someone thinks they are being mistreated by us, they won't tell 5 people, they'll tell 5000.
Jeff Bezos

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
Jeff Bezos

Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose Bierce

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce

When money talks, few are deaf.
Earl Derr Biggers

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
Karan Bilimoria

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck

The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.
Gerard M. Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?
William Blake

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake

Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake

My mother groan'd, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake

Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, don't let their appearances fool you.
Kenneth Blanchard

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
Michael Bloomberg

If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
Niels Bohr

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck

He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.
Peter Bonfield

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
James Boren

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen

Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
Terri Bowersock

Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Richard Branson

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson

In a restless, creative business with an emphasis on experiment and development, ideas are the lifeblood.
Richard Branson

No one has ever accused us of lagging behind. In fact, I am willing to turn an entire company upside down if it's time to do that. We're in perpetual evolution.
Richard Branson

The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
Richard Branson

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for the Emperor can actually do nothing.
Bertolt Brecht

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane

No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Brown

I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This is called the land of the free and the home of the brave; it is called the asylum of the oppressed; and some have been foolish enough to call it the Cradle of Liberty. If it is the cradle of liberty, they have rocked the child to death. It is dead long since, and yet we talk about democracy and republicanism, while one-sixth of our countrymen are clanking their chains upon the very soil which our fathers moistened with their blood.
William Wells Brown

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Thomas Browne

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyère

Whereas logic is the art of demonstrating truth, eloquence is the gift of winning over people's hearts and minds so that you may inspire them and persuade them in whatever way you choose.
Jean de La Bruyère

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman

Once the what is decided the how always follows. We must not make the how an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.
Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck

I don't pay attention to what the stock does. If the business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

I've learned the perimeter of my circle of confidence.
Warren Buffett

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Warren Buffett

Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.
Warren Buffett

The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace. And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Warren Buffett

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett

The market will pay better to entertain than educate.
Warren Buffett

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
Warren Buffett

The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong.
Warren Buffett

Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Your goal as an investor ... to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher ... years from now. Over time, you will find only a few companies that meet these standards - so when you see one ... buy a meaningful amount of stock.
Warren Buffett

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Attributed.
Edmund Burke

If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it, then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
James E. Burke

Watch how a man takes praise and there you have the measure of him.
Thomas Burke

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
H. S. M. Burns

But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
The best laid schemes of mice and men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns

Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
George W. Bush

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler (Author)

Home, Sweet Home must surely have been written by a bachelor.
Samuel Butler (Author)

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler (Author)

For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclin'd,
Hudibras
Samuel Butler (Poet)

Your brain is, indeed, a supreme example of, and is the ultimate, Internet.
Tony Buzan

'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
George Byron

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
George Byron

Each man the architect of his own fate.
Appius Claudius Caecus

God has forgotten me.
Referring to her long life at the age of 120.
Jeanne Calment

IBM is like the Stepford Wives. It takes the best people from the best universities and colleges and then snips out some part of the brain so that they become mindless clones.
Bill Campbell

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune.
Elias Canetti

And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.
George Canning

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, Good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, Oh, save me from the candid friend!
George Canning

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle

Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for the public ends would work good to the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.
Andrew Carnegie

Never speculate ... if you have savings, invest them in solid securities, lands, or property. The man who gambles upon the exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table. He rarely, if ever, makes a permanent success.
Andrew Carnegie

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is what others think you are.
Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Bernardus Carnotensis

That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.
Lewis Carroll

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. Why, you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson

Clothes are our weapons, our challenges, and our visible insult.
Angela Carter

He was a man with a great future behind him.
Angela Carter

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter

Tax laws also benefit those who have the best lobbying efforts ... and the larger the corporations are, the smaller proportion they pay in taxes.
Jimmy Carter

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Barbara Cartland

If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.
Casimir

I say what I mean, you hear what I say. That is the end of it.
Barbara Cassani

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Mary Catherwood

There are two ways to compete - in stable conditions, you plan and you compete on scale. In unstable times, you live by your wits.
Dick Cavanagh

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Cervantes

I have always heard it said, that to do a kindness to clowns, is like throwing water into the sea.
Cervantes

Who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much.
Cervantes

Wisdom comes with talking less frivolously and listening more seriously. The latter implies a learning attitude; the former assumes an air of omniscience that does not exist.
S. K. Chakraborty

There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker

Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.
Raymond Chandler

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

Words are so futile, so feeble.
Charlie Chaplin

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Ilka Chase

And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer

He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
Geoffrey Chaucer

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship, respect do not unite people so much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
Anton Chekhov

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterton

Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
G. K. Chesterton

When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
G. K. Chesterton

Heroes are not judged for their prowess in hunting and shooting tigers, but rather for their strength and ability to endure the humiliation of being pigs.
Chin-Ning Chu

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

I would like to have been examined in history, poetry and writing essays. The examiners, on the other hand, were partial to Latin and mathematics. And their will prevailed ... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know.
Winston Churchill

Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.*
*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.*
*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill

Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as his own.
Galeazzo Ciano

Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself.
Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

The sinews of war: unlimited money.
Cicero

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.
Arthur C. Clarke

In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Hillary Clinton

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Hillary Clinton

'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Arthur Hugh Clough

Though shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Colby

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Colton

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Colton

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Colton

The more we ask, the more we have.
And, it is fair enough: asking is not always easy.
And it is said to be hard to accept ...
So no wonder we have so little.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
Confucius

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart.
Confucius

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
Confucius

To be dilatory about giving orders, but to expect absolute punctuality, that is called being a tormentor.
Confucius

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Confucius

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
Shirley Conran

Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Terence Conran

That's what I say about restaurants - the back part is manufacturing, the front part is retailing, the theatre is what holds the whole thing together.
Terence Conran

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable

Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day.
A. J. Cook

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.
Eliza Cook

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooley

The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

The thing that best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
Bill Cosby

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Leonard Courtney

Avoid fight or flight, talk through differences.
Stephen R. Covey

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.
Stephen R. Covey

I am no good at love
I betray it with little sins
For I feel the misery of the end
In the moment that it begins
And the bitterness of the last goodbye
Is the bitterness that wins.
Noël Coward

I was delighted to see that you thought I was as good as I thought I was.
Noël Coward

The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.
Noël Coward

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper

Adieu to Liberty! Adieu to Fame!
For other gifts, for softer joys I pine;
In one fair breast I wish a mutual flame,
In one fair breast alone to burn with mine.
George Crabbe

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Richard Crashaw

The leader is not just a scorekeeper. He is responsible for creating something new and better.
Wilbur L. Creech

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavour of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.
Jean de Crèvecoeur

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out.
Roy Croft

For many businesses, the Internet is still a technology in search of a strategy.
Mary J. Cronin

Just as location, location, location defines value in real estate, in business today it's connectivity that equals competitiveness.
Mary J. Cronin

Money, it has been said, has two properties. It is flat so that it can be piled up. But it is also round so that it can circulate.
Geoffrey Crowther

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings

To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Jamie Lee Curtis

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
Alexandra David-Néel

Running after women never hurt anybody - it's catching 'em that does the damage.
Jack Davies

Girls scream, boys shout; dogs bark, school's out.
W. H. Davies

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis

If a lady says No, she means Perhaps; if she says Perhaps, she means Yes; if she says Yes, she is no Lady. If a diplomat says Yes, he means Perhaps; if he says Perhaps, he means No; if he says No, he is no Diplomat.
Bertrand Dawson

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets ... If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.
Eugene V. Debs

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugène Delacroix

To my mind, a man must choose a wife for himself, without advice from anybody. As I said to Tony before he ever proposed to this girl: Make sure that she's good, and a lady, and healthy, and intelligent, and that she's going to get on with your friends and relations, and you with hers - and then, my dear boy, if you feel that you can afford to marry - then I suppose there's no help for it.
E. M. Delafield

I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
Michael Dell

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.
Michael Dell

If you limit a company by its structure or by the people in the company, you will, by definition, limit the full potential of that business. It sounds basic, but a lot of companies don't follow the idea that the structure should be last and not first.
Michael Dell

It's fun to do things that people don't think are possible or likely.
Michael Dell

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

See how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run and yet they steal my thunder!
John Dennis

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they are open.
James Dewar

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens

You are a human boy, my young friend.
A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy! ...
O running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy!
Charles Dickens

You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of marriage, you could draw me to any good - every good - with equal force.
Charles Dickens

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

A Father's Day would call attention to such constructive teachings from the pulpit as would naturally point out: The father's place in the home. The training of children. The safeguarding of the marriage tie. The protection of womanhood and childhood. The meaning of this, whether in the light of religion or of patriotism is so apparent as to need no argument in behalf of such a day.
Sonora Smart Dodd

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne

Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
John Donne

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

When dealing with complexity and uncertainty, trust and openness become critical.
David Dotlich

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.
Norman Douglas

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret Drabble

Must, bid the Morn awake,
Sad Winter now declines,
Each Bird doth choose a mate,
This day's Saint Valentine's;
For that good Bishop's sake
Get up, and let us see
What Beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
Michael Drayton

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views ... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
Peter Drucker

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker

The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.
Peter Drucker

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

My heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine,
My lips to thy lips,
Kisses are wine ...
Paul Dunbar

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.
Charles Dunstone

Nice guys. Finish last.
Leo Durocher

A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
Florence P. Dwyer

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
Henry van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
Brian Dyson

First get in, then get rich, then get respectable.
Bernie Ecclestone

Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children and cut their own fingers.
Arthur Eddington

People are the lifeblood of any airline, and it is the people of BA who will deliver its future success.
Rod Eddington

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Edelman

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaption to the problem you're working on.
Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII

No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
Mark R. Edwards

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Failing is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.
Michael Eisner

I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.
Michael Eisner

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

You are lonely; I love you; I want you to consent to be my wife; I will wait, but I want you to promise that you will marry me - no one else.
George Eliot

April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot

If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
T. S. Eliot

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too!
Elizabeth I

Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis

We will ship them our garbage. We believe in full disclosure.
Larry Ellison

You can't win without being completely different. When everyone else says we are crazy, I say, gee we really must be on to something.
Larry Ellison

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai

It is difficulties that show what men are.
Epictetus

It is your own conviction which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
Epictetus

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar

There is no royal road to geometry.
Euclid

Man tell us our lives are free of danger. We stay at home. They go to war. Rubbish. I'd rather face three assaults. In line of battle, than bear one child.
Euripides

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
Sam Ewing

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
Sam Ewing

Contracts are agreements made up of big words and little type.
Sam Ewing

Two things to help keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.
Sam Ewing

When the meek inherit the earth, lawyers will be there to work out the deal.
Sam Ewing

To win against opponents, companies need strategies for three related tasks: outwitting, outmaneuvering, and outperforming competitors.
Liam Fahey

The decision to do that extra bit must be embedded in the company's culture.
Tom Farmer

Problem children tend to grow up into problem adults and problem adults tend to produce more problem children.
David Farrington

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

There are many excuses for the persons who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Fawcett

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber

Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Carly Fiorina

I realised that if you want to change something, nine times out of ten you can change it more effectively from within.
Niall FitzGerald

At office-managerial level ... you do not read more than the first two sentences of any given report. You believe that anything which cannot be put into two sentences is not worth attending to.
Penelope Fitzgerald

Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Mary Parker Follett

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Mary Parker Follett

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
Mary Parker Follett

It is impossible to place all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine

The stronger man's argument is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Bertie Forbes

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Miss C. F. Forbes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Forbes

Growth is like creativity, it doesn't go along very neat, precise plans. You get clogged highways before you figure out a way to open up capacity. You get pollution before you figure out a way to fight it.
Steve Forbes

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored.
Henry Ford

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Henry Ford

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

Sometimes it is the men higher up who most need revamping - and they themselves are the last to recognize it.
Henry Ford

There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
Henry Ford

A company needs smart young men with the imagination and the guts to turn everything upside down if they can. It also needs old figures to keep them from turning upside down those things that ought to be rightside up.
Henry Ford II

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.
E. M. Forster

Imitation lies at the root of most human actions. A respectable person is one who conforms to custom. People are called good when they do as others do.
Anatole France

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl

A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost.
Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
James Frazer

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford

All that matters is love and work.
Sigmund Freud

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman

The real problem for any government coming to power is to control the civil servants. They will all explain why it is quite impossible to do things other than the way they are currently done.
Milton Friedman

Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love.
Immature love says: I love you because I need you.
Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
David Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's the wife who can't cook and will.
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.
Art Fry

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
John Galbraith

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Galbraith

Change is inevitable, but it is in us to control its content and directions.
Indira Gandhi

It is possible for a business venture to be an island of efficiency in a sea of sloth.
Indira Gandhi

Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
Indira Gandhi

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells.
Mahatma Gandhi

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
James Garfield

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

A little blindness is necessary when you undertake risk.
Bill Gates

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
Bill Gates

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
Bill Gates

Passionate leadership won't succeed if contradictory signals are sent out.
Bill Gates

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.
Bill Gates

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Bill Gates

We rely on skilled foreign workers for their math, science, and creative abilities as well as their cultural knowledge, which helps when localizing products for world markets.
Bill Gates

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.
Harold Geneen

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold Geneen

It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing the degree and level of work that he should be doing and, at the same time, have a clean desk.
Harold Geneen

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold Geneen

Four spectres haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
David Lloyd George

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
George V

For, you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gérard

Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
Ira Gershwin

There is a misconception that small is always more beautiful than big.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record ... business is no place for him.
Jean Paul Getty

If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.
Jean Paul Getty

Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
Jean Paul Getty

The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.
Jean Paul Getty

It's the classic case of being at the party too early. Nobody was there yet and nobody had had a drink. By the time we got there, the party was raging.
Mark Getty

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
Sumantra Ghoshal

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which
you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
André Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
André Gide

[The] city of New York and the United States of America is much stronger than any group of barbaric terrorists, that our democracy, that our rule of law, that our strength and our willingness to defend ourselves will ultimately prevail.
Rudy Giuliani

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Edna Gladney

You can't fight against the future. Time is on our side.
William Gladstone

Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
Vincent van Gogh

It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.
Roberto Goizueta

The world is first a Coke world, then an orange world, then a lemon-lime world.
Roberto Goizueta

You can only stumble if you're moving.
Roberto Goizueta

Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group. To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's own feelings of uneasiness and misgiving, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.
Daniel Goleman

That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the Fourth of July and in our popular myths and heroes, also contributes to the breakdown of the social fabric that has always provided a secure context for our freedoms. Freedom from has not yet yielded to an appropriate freedom for.
Peter J. Gomes

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy: in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracián

Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
Baltasar Gracián

Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
Baltasar Gracián

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
Baltasar Gracián

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
Katharine Graham

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
Katharine Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham

Alas, regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
Thomas Gray

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
Graham Greene

Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
R. Hunt Greene

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
Robert Greenleaf

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andrew Grove

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
Andrew Grove

The essence of a company like Intel is execution and strategy. Intel, looked at in another way, is a three-legged stool. One leg is technology - design and silicon technology - another leg is manufacturing, and the third leg is marketing. Whenever Intel did well it was because the three legs were equal. Whenever one of those legs was shorter than the others, we wobbled.
Andrew Grove

The new environment dictates two rules; first everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
Andrew Grove

You can't treat your people like an expense item.
Andrew Grove

Without an appropriate vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of confusing, incompatible and time-consuming projects that go in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.
Bob Guccione

Only a dad but he gives his all
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim,
The deeds that his father did for him,
This is the line that for him I pen,
Only a dad, but the best of men.
Edgar Guest

Life is very insistent; and it always seems to be so when friends sadly leave us.
Alec Guinness

The best number for a dinner party is two: myself and a damn good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian

Bury your ego. Don't be the star. Be the star maker!
Bud Hadfield

Failure is a learning experience. It can be a gravestone or a stepping stone.
Bud Hadfield

Greed is even more contagious than fear.
Bud Hadfield

When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
Bud Hadfield

You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.
Doug Hall

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Learned Hand

No plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.
Learned Hand

I'm not an entrepreneur. I like rules too much and entrepreneurs break rules.
Guy Hands

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thich Nhat Hanh

My momma always said, life was like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get.
Tom Hanks

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
E. Y. Harburg

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness

If you want to push something ... you're accused of being aggressive, and that's not supposed to be a good thing for a woman. If you get upset and show it, you're accused of being emotional.
Mary Harney

Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face ... Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - there is nothing so self-blinding.
B. H. Liddell Hart

Change is an attitude of mind and the place to start is within ourselves.
John Harvey-Jones

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Keeping dreams alive and trying to make them come true is crucial in the watch business. We're in the business of selling emotional products.
Nicolas G. Hayek

Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
Denis Healey

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
Piet Hein

The sea has its pearls,
The heavens its stars,
I love you without question,
But my heart, my heart,
My heart has its love.
Heinrich Heine

An expert is a man who knows some of the worst errors that can be made in the subject in question and who therefore understands how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg

People in the company are almost never fired ... they are encouraged to retire early or are eased aside into hollow, insignificant positions with fake functions and no authority where they are sheepish and unhappy for as long as they remain.
Joseph Heller

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind ... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Joseph Heller

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Katherine Hepburn

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn

I like a nice cup of tea in the morning,
For to start the day, you see,
And at half-past eleven
Well, my idea of Heaven
Is a nice cup of tea:
I like a nice cup of tea with me dinner
And a nice cup of tea with me tea,
And when it's time for bed
There's a lot to be said
For a nice cup of tea.
A. P. Herbert

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often.
Oliver Herford

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
Frederick Herzberg

The market has no morality.
Michael Heseltine

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Michael Heseltine

A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
Gordon Hewart

Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
Patricia Hewitt

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Paris Hilton

For extreme illnesses, extreme treatments are most fitting.
Hippocrates

Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates

If this is justice, I am a banana.
Ian Hislop

Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
Thomas Hobbes

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Eric Hoffer

The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
Eric Hoffer

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1 per cent of your work which results from the 99 per cent that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda

I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
Thomas Hood

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine,
Love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Thomas Hood

Tomorrow's typical career will be neither linear nor continuous, nor will it always be upwards. Instead, one's life work will take more of a zig-zag course.
Tom Horton

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
E. W. Howe

In the not too distant future the notion of the annual pay increase must become as exceptional as it was novel a generation ago.
Geoffrey Howe

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens the way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
John Howe

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.
Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard

Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further the better.
Kin Hubbard

Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
Kin Hubbard

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
Thomas Hughes

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other...there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven...This is the love which you inspire in me.
Victor Hugo

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David Hume

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.
David Hume

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury ... They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may chuse how far he will use the commodity which is taxed.
David Hume

Making and preserving friends. Select some sound hearts. Be careful not to bruise them with unfeeling words. Take of milk of human kindness one heartful. Add to this plenty of tact. Warm the mixture with plenty of sympathy. Do not let it get too hot at first, lest it only ferment mischief. Knead with plenty of oil of unselfishness to make all smooth. Beware of jars (lovely wording). The mixture should be kept in a warm corner of the heart. Years only serve to improve the flavour of friends thus preserved.
Barry Humphries

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins

Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied at the result.
Elspeth Huxley

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Andrew Jackson

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Holbrook Jackson

A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and privilege. But the woman is called career woman because her career ... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.
C. L. R. James

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web ... suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

As for myself, I know what trouble I've given you at various times through my peculiarities, and as my own boys grow up, I shall learn more and more of the kind of trial you had to overcome in superintending the development of a creature different from yourself, for whom you felt responsible.
Letter to his father.
William James

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

When women ask for equality, men take them to be demanding domination.
Elizabeth Janeway

I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

If you haven't struck oil in your first three minutes, stop boring!
George Jessel

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.
Steve Jobs

We have a very simple, clear organization. It's very easy to know who has authority for what, who has responsibility for what. There's no politics about it, they're virtually politics-free organizations.
Steve Jobs

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something ... That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Samuel Johnson

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
Samuel Johnson

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

In civilised society, personal merit will not serve you so much as money will. Sir, you may make the experiment. Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you the most.
Samuel Johnson

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.... and the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson

Greatness of name in the father oft-times helps not forth but over-whelms the son; they stand too near one another, the shadow kills the growth. So much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir.
Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you make the customer happy?
Liisa Joronen

If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Keith Joseph

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
Joseph Joubert

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin Jowett

What did it for me? It wasn't my education or experience. It was my passion.
Andrea Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
Juvenal

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
Franz Kafka

Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant

Companies that stay ahead of change are ones in which their people see change as something they themselves accomplish and not something that is imposed on them. They see lots of opportunities to take initiative.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The power of the position is giving way to the power of the person. A formal title and its placement on an organization chart have less to do with career prospects and success ... than the skills and ideas a person brings to that work.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

There's nothing more demoralizing than having nobody notice good performance ... the successful culture is one that provides constant recognition and applause. At the same time, it breeds a restless dissatisfaction that keeps you challenging yourself to a higher and higher performance.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
Donna Karan

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nicos Kazantzakis

Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong.
Paul Keating

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Endymion
John Keats

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.
John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced ... even a proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats

Customers provide you with the most accurate barometer of what's right and wrong.
Herb Kelleher

The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
Herb Kelleher

Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax.
Vivien Kellems

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
Helen Keller

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the faultfinding of men.
Thomas à Kempis

I feel sorry for those who live without competition ... fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security.
Donald Kendall

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
Spoken at inaugural address and inscribed on his memorial.
John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
United Nations on September 25, 1961.
John F. Kennedy

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy

The purpose of a university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.
Clark Kerr

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Victor Kiam

I don't like to hire consultants. They're like castrated bulls: all they can do is advise.
Victor Kiam

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
Florence King

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quality is not a program that can be simply imposed on an operation; instead it is a way of operating that permeates a business and the thinking of its employees.
Theodore B. Kinni

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt.
Rudyard Kipling

Each in his place, by right, not grace,
Shall rule his heritage -
The men who simply do the work
For which they draw the wage.
Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I know)
Their names
are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling

The difference between a leader and a boss is the difference between good and bad management.
Joe Klock Sr.

Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act ... the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.
Charles Koch

True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler

Good customers are an asset which, when well managed and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.
Philip Kotler

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.
Louis Kronenberger

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish, and almost unwearable.
Christian Lacroix

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama

A child's a plaything for an hour.
Charles Lamb

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Philip Larkin

Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.
Estée Lauder

The more you talk and listen to a bad character the more you lose your dislike for him.
Henry Lawson

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
Geraldine Laybourne

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary, however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is what public means.
Fran Lebowitz

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.
Mikhail Lermontov

I once said cynically of a politician, He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson

The man who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Will not make as many dollars
As the man who climbs the tree and hollers!
William Lever

We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Arthur Levitt

A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Theodore Levitt

Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C. S. Lewis

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Littré

I've found that when it came to doing something I loved and fighting for it, things worked out. If you're going to kill yourself to develop something, you've got to enjoy it.
Jeanine Lobell

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you ask one friend to dine,
Give him your best wine!
When you ask two,
The second best will do!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You're fired! No other words can so easily and succinctly reduce a confident, self-assured executive to an insecure, groveling shred of his former self.
Frank P. Louchheim

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell

Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
E. V. Lucas

He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
John Lundberg

It is a characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.
Jonathan Lynn

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Oliver Lyttelton

I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do. No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
Ian MacGregor

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolò Machiavelli

For a woman to attain a high level in a male-dominated profession, she has to work twice as hard and/or be twice as smart.
Elizabeth Mackay

If you follow your passion, the money will follow. But if you chase the almighty dollar, you can easily lose that and end up with nothing.
Elizabeth Mackay

I don't believe in principles. Principles are only excuses for what we want to think or what we want to do.
Compton Mackenzie

I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters. I did all I could do to really stand out and that nurtured a lot of confidence and drive and ambition.
Madonna

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major

Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba

It is not impossibilities which fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men - the balance wheel of the social machinery ... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Horace Mann

Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
Thomas Mann

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Marya Mannes

Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George Marshall

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie

In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.
James Mathew

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.
Konosuke Matsushita

The tail tracks the head. If the head moves fast the tail will keep up the same pace. If the head is sluggish, the tail will drop.
Konosuke Matsushita

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. Somerset Maugham

People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham

The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
André Maurois

People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.
John C. Maxwell

I would have been a success in anything. But I have chosen an activity that was socially useful and that aspect gives me extra satisfaction.
Robert Maxwell

Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Robert Maxwell

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.
Mark McCormack

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack

Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
Mark McCormack

We seriously undervalue the passion ... a person brings to an enterprise. You can rent a brain, but you can't rent a heart.
Mark McCormack

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity with an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
Margaret Mead

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute - he simply speaks and does what is right.
Mencius

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup.
H. L. Mencken

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
H. L. Mencken

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith

There's a feast undated, yet
Both our true lives hold it fast,
Even the day when first we met.
What a great day came and passed,
Unknown then but known at last.
Alice Meynell

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
John Stuart Mill

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller

A salesman has got to dream, boy, it comes with the territory.
Arthur Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
John Milton

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

Allow me, then, Mademoiselle, to place today on the altar of your charms, the offering of my heart, which aspires to and strives after no other glory than for the rest of its life to be, Mademoiselle your very humble, very obedient and very faithful servant and husband.
Molière

Nearly all men die of their medicines, and not of their illnesses.
Molière

I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.
Lorraine Moller

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Montesquieu

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Thomas Moore

Trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles spring.
Hannah More

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Thomas More

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Robert Morley

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
John Mortimer

Restaurants have this in common with ladies: the best are often not the most enjoyable, nor the grandest the most friendly, and the pleasures of the evening are frequently spoiled by the writing of an exorbitant cheque.
John Mortimer

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
Rupert Murdoch

We're not going global because we want to or because of any megalomania, but because it's really necessary.
Rupert Murdoch

Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
Narayana Murthy

I do not really understand the stock market.
Narayana Murthy

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land. One has to only think global. Otherwise success will disappear like the dew in the morning sun.
Narayana Murthy

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
Narayana Murthy

Anyone can build market share and, if you set your prices low enough, you can get the whole damn market.
David Packard

We have a technique at Hewlett-Packard for helping managers and supervisors know their people and understand the work their people are doing ... Management by Walking About.
David Packard

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: those righteous who believe themselves sinners; the other sinners who believe themselves righteous.
Blaise Pascal

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali

We strive to be Number One ... But win or lose, it is the competition which gives us pleasure.
Joe Paterno

Given the natural differences between human beings, equality is an ethical aspiration that cannot be realized without recourse either to despotism or to an act of fraternity.
Octavio Paz

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz

Misquotation is ... the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres

For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Pericles

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
Ross Perot

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
Laurence J. Peter

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Tom Peters

Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
Tom Peters

You have a responsibility to shape the vision of a company, and you know whatever process you choose will determine ultimately the well-being of the organization.
Eckhard Pfeiffer

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Pauline Phillips

The child's first year of life is unfortunately still an abyss of mysteries for the psychologist.
Jean Piaget

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pablo Picasso

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
Marge Piercy

We Bishops, in our proper dress, originated the mini-skirt. But we allowed Mary Quant to steal the thunder and make three million quid out of it last year.
Victor J. Pike

Quality is not a thing. It is an event.
Robert M. Pirsig

What I say is that just or right means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
Plato

Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same income.
Plato

Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
Pliny

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream ...
All that you see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
Faith Popcorn

Women are becoming enormously successful ... They're running their businesses on what we call a familial model, a family, instead of a hierarchical top-down military model. They work with, not over or for.
Faith Popcorn

All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope

Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, and see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest.
Alexander Pope

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Katherine Anne Porter

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own-even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of values.
Michael Porter

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by, -
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.
Winthrop Praed

And 'tis remarkable, that they talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior

I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!
Edna Dean Proctor

You know it takes a year, a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing somebody. That's a true saying.
Annie Proulx

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Walter Raleigh

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.
Diane Ravitch

A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

It's true hard work never killed anyone but I figure why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
Ronald Reagan

Wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
David Ricardo

In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Al Ries

Sing in the tones of prayer,
Sing till the soaring soul
Shall float above the world's control
In Freedom everywhere!
Sing for the good that is to be,
Sing for the eyes that are to see
The land where man at last is free,
O sing for Liberty!
James Riley

The customer is never wrong.
César Ritz

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford to pay.
Alfred Robens

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.
Wess Roberts

Risk is what an entrepreneur eats for breakfast. It's what she slips into bed with at night. If you have no appetite for this stuff, or no ability to digest it, then get out of the game right now.
Heather Robertson

It is more shameful to doubt one's friends than to be duped by them.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
François de La Rochefoucauld

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
Anita Roddick

The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement that I feel.
Anita Roddick

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
Anita Roddick

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient - euphoria.
Anita Roddick

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Anita Roddick

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
Will Rogers

I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
Will Rogers

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

Where the character is not great, there is no great man ... Never mind success. It is a question of being great, not seeming it.
Romain Rolland

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no indispensable man.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

For one man is my world of all the men
This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
Christina Rossetti

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
Leo Rosten

If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up by one.
Helen Rowland

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland

Men are still clinging to the hope that women are powerless, because they haven't got much else to cling to.
Harriet Rubin

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk - which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.
Harriet Rubin

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Helena Rubinstein

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubinstein

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Rumi

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
John Ruskin

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid, the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Mark Rutherford

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
Witold Rybczynski

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Françoise Sagan

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki

He looked like the kind of a guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.
J. D. Salinger

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J. D. Salinger

Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still a people business ... it may be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
Anthony Sampson

Even children learn in growing up that both is not an admissible answer to a choice of which one?
Paul Samuelson

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
Paul Samuelson

The consumer, so it is said, is the king ... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.
Paul Samuelson

Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything. Men, it's the only thing!
Version A.
Henry Russell Sanders

Sure, winning isn't every thing; it's the only thing.
Version B.
Henry Russell Sanders

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent

There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!
Jean-Paul Sartre

You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
Peter de Savary

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile

Contract: an agreement that is binding on the weaker party.*
*Attribution questionable.
Frederick Sawyer

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

Father's Day was comical in part because fathers seemed so out of place or uncomfortable in this holiday world of sentimental gifts and domestic flattery. The little remembrances of flowers, cards, and novelties became funny when showered on Father; they opened up a line of humor that played on the gendered incongruities of holiday gift giving. As one editorial writer on the holiday put the matter in 1925, fathers have 'no talent for the fribbles and frabbles and furbelows with which Mother signalizes well-being.
Leigh Eric Schmidt

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer

People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.
Ian Schrager

Crying is almost a ritual that male politicians must do to prove they are compassionate, but women are supposed to wear iron britches.
Pat Schroeder

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E. F. Schumacher

One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
Fred Schwed

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration - of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
Lance Secretan

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Instead of giving contracts to strangers, we decided we could just as well give contracts to our own employees. We would encourage them to leave ... and start their own satellite enterprises.
Ricardo Semler

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Seneca

Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from lack of confidence.
Seneca

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca

Quality control was treated as a fad here, but it's been part of the Japanese business philosophy for decades. That's why they laugh at us.
Peter Senge

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fathers that wear rags
Do make their children blind,
But fathers that bear bags
Shall see their children kind.
King Lear
William Shakespeare

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not, I'll die your maid, To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.
The Tempest
William Shakespeare

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Richard II
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Othello
William Shakespeare

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
King John
William Shakespeare

When the sea was calm, all boats alike
Show'd mastership in floating.
Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:
King Lear
William Shakespeare

Why, 'tis a happy thing
To be the father unto many sons.
Henry VI
William Shakespeare

Information is like an oyster. It has its greatest value when it is fresh.
Carl Shapiro

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
Carl Shapiro

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder; God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw

You see things as they are and ask, Why? I dream things as they never were and ask, Why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Spoken to a young lady.
Richard Sheridan

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
Stan Shih

Leadership is the process of achieving a dream together, especially when that dream seems impossible to achieve.
Stan Shih

For lots of big companies, their brand is worth so much to them that they can't endanger their reputation for being a quality company without really endangering their business performance.
Clare Short

Whenever we have compromised on our principles, we and our customers have been the losers.
Marcus Sieff

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
Herbert Simon

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth - all that is illusion.
O. J. Simpson

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement - a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.
Reuben Singh

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Of all business activities, 99% are routine ... The entire 100% can be handled by managing the 1% of exceptions.
Alfred P. Sloan

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape.
Dodie Smith

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith

Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith

Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Administrators are cheap and easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders - risk takers: they are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.
Raymond W. Smith

Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.
Sydney Smith

One evil in old age is that as your time is come you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested every knock at the door is an alarm.
Sydney Smith

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
Masayoshi Son

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
George Soros

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really tough the authorities will step in.
George Soros

I am cautious about going against the herd. I am liable to be trampled on.
George Soros

If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Diana Spencer

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Diana Spencer

We often say a speaker needs no introduction: what most of them need is a conclusion. In my view, an after-dinner speech - and I've experienced 40,000 of them - needs a good beginning, a good ending, and not much space in between.
Ivor Spencer

I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Baruch Spinoza

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of.
Philip Stanhope

I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Stanhope

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Philip Stanhope

Never make concessions.
Gertrude Stein

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Laurence Sterne

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure, I think mine is), is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence Sterne

I suppose flattery hurts no one - that is, if he doesn't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
Thomas A. Stewart

A diplomat ... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
Jack Straw

I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg

The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.
Alan Sugar

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and - the third I can't remember.
Italo Svevo

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
Amy Tan

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson

And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
Alfred Tennyson

For Man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred Tennyson

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson

Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all
the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the
maddest merriest day;
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.
Alfred Tennyson

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher

Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind because that's what makes you different from everyone else.
Dave Thomas

Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately, you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.
Dave Thomas

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
Dylan Thomas

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau

But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides

Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
James Thurber

The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Robert Townsend

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend

Nobody should be chief executive officer of anything for more than five or six years. By then he's stale, bored, and utterly dependent upon his own cliches.
Robert Townsend

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend

No manufacturing company will ever do well if they are concerned only with calculating profits.
Shoichiro Toyoda

The depths and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky

All the president is is a glorified PR man who spends his life flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

I have found that the best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman

Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
Harry S. Truman

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman

If you don't have passion ... you might as well give up ... you have no chance of making it. Passion is the essence of life, and certainly the essence of success.
Donald Trump

My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
Donald Trump

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

If you have an olive, you want an olive tree. You want a little more. You want the whole tree.
Ted Turner

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
Ted Turner

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu

Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
Mark Twain

In the matter of diet - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things that didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.
Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to charity, wait, and count to forty. To save three-quarters, count sixty. To save it all, count sixty-five.
Mark Twain

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, We did this ourselves.
Lao Tzu

A terrace nine stories high rises from a handful of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Lao Tzu

Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
Lao Tzu

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu

The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
Lao Tzu

Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Lao Tzu

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations ... here the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few to defeat.
Sun Tzu

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
Sun Tzu

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu

I got my start by giving myself a start.
C. J. Walker

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton

Our philosophy is that management's role is simply to get the right people in the right places to do a job, and to encourage them to use their own inventiveness to accomplish the task at hand.
Sam Walton

We learned from everybody else's book and added a few pages of our own.
Sam Walton

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
Barbara Ward

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always good for progress.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.

I want to begin with what I think is the most important factor: our respect for the individual. This is a simple concept, but in IBM it occupies a major portion of management time.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.

Look, you can take anything away from IBM ... but leave our people and this business will re-create itself overnight.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.

There aren't any categories of problems here. There's just one problem. Some of us aren't paying enough attention to our customers.
Thomas J. Watson Sr.

You cannot be a success in any business without believing that it is the greatest business in the world ... You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson Sr.

You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.
Evelyn Waugh

Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.
David Wayne

Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver

However many people complain about the red tape, it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out except by means of officials working in offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.
Max Weber

I don't like the word empowerment. I think the word we're really talking about is involvement ... We want everyone to have a say.
Jack Welch

Insecure managers create complexity.
Jack Welch

The point of work-out is to give people better jobs. When people see that their ideas count, their dignity is raised. Instead of feeling numb, like robots, they feel important.
Jack Welch

When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.
Jack Welch

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
Arnold Wesker

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman

I give you my love
More precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself?
Will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other
As long as we live?
Walt Whitman

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde

Be careful to choose your enemies well. Friends don't much matter. But the choice of enemies is very important.
Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Examinations are of no value whatsoever. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Oscar Wilde

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde

I don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations with myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

I only care to see doctors when I am in perfect health; then they comfort one, but when one is ill they are most depressing.
Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Next to having a staunch friend is the pleasure of having a brilliant enemy.
Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover, when it is too late, that the only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly - when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Oscar Wilde

When I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Oscar Wilde

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and are not.
Oscar Wilde

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; and now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
E. O. Wilson

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Kemmons Wilson

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin - it should make you jump up and do something.
Kemmons Wilson

The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family ... It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.
Kemmons Wilson

My deepest, strongest desire in marrying you, Darling, is to make you happy, and I would put into this some word of love which would seem to your heart a sort of sweet preface to the book of love which we are about to open together, to read new secrets of sympathy and companionship. I would have you catch a glimpse of my purpose for the future and of the joy which that future contains for me, of the gratitude I feel for your priceless gift of love, and of the infinite love and tenderness which is the gift of my whole heart to you.
Woodrow Wilson

Not everyone is capable of being a CEO It means you don't get to pal around with all your employees and that you leave the sorority/fraternity approach to life behind, and you take on a role that is, in some respects, lonely.
Ann Winblad

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Walter Winchell

I believe in my own possibilities, and I feel I can do it all.
Oprah Winfrey

I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
Oprah Winfrey

If money is your motivation, forget it.
Oprah Winfrey

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Oprah Winfrey

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.
P. G. Wodehouse

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Humbert Wolfe

Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over - it is now!
Kenneth Wolstenholme

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about.
Tiger Woods

Hindsight gives everyone perfect vision.
Chris Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
William Wrigley

Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his last No.
William Wrigley

When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley

From leaders, we need clear, consistent and honest attention to the identity of the organization. Identity shows up in our actions, our visions, our relationships inside and out of the organization. Identity gets deepened as we do the work.
Walter Wriston

They have this wonderful process of learning from direct experience called After Action Review, in which everyone who was involved sits down and the three questions are: What happened? Why do you think it happened? And what can we learn from it? If you were ... able to get those three questions as part of your process, you could become a learning organization.
Walter Wriston

When you retire ... you go from who's who to who's that, like stepping off the pier (or) achieving statutory senility.
Walter Wriston

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