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Denis Whatley, 1985

Haste in every business brings failure.

Herodotus (459 BC)

There are three things which are real - God, human folly, and laughter.
The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can to the third.

John F. Kennedy

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

Williams Feather, (1985)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain, (1878)

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Henry A. Kissinger, (1975)

All men, by nature, desire to know.

Aristotle, (330 BC)

Do not be overly elated by good fortune. Remember how easily it can change.
Aesop Fable (500 BC)

Never find delight in another's misfortune.
Pulilius Syrus, (BC)

The word "necessary" seldom is.
Keith W. Hall

"Do other men for they would do you". That's the true business precept.

Charles Dickens, (1844)

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

Albert Einstein.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

James R. Cook, (1986)

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, (1941)

When all else fails read the instructions.

Agnus Allen, (1979)

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain, (1894)

When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters.

Milton S. Gould, (1967)

Employees must be given responsibility; to be backed with investment; and to be provided with motivation. Good people won't stay without them.

Robert Heller.

A ship in a port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper, (1986)

The past is at least secure.

Daniel Webster (1830)

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

J Paul Getty, (1961)

The worse the passage, the more welcome the port.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, (1665)

There is no such thing as a "hard sell" or a "soft sell". There is only a "smart sell" or a "stupid sell". Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.

Joel E. Ross and Michael J. Kami, (1973)

Men of few words are the best men.

Freem Teague Jr(1979)

The first step to finding something is knowing where to look.

Robert Half, (1985)

Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.

Joe Harvey, (1988)

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Howard W. Newton, (1988)

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Euripides, (428)

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone, (1866)

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare.

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin, (1748)

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.

Henry A. Kissinger, (1973)

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

Paul de Gondi, (1665)

Virtue is not always amiable.

John Adams, (1779)

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt, (1917)

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

William Godwin, (1793)

You never learn anything when you are talking.

Jeffery G. Allen, (1988)

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer, (1892)

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Herodotus, (450 BC)

Every man loves what he is good at.

Thomas Shadwell, (1679)

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Denis Waitley, (1985)

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

J. Fred Bucy, (1985)

You're in the front door, kid. What you do on this side of it is up to you.

A. J. Carothers, (1987)

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot, 1988.

There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Joseph Addison, (1711)

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb.

Your attitude is a choice you make.

Denis Waitley (1985)

As you get better at things, it becomes less interesting.

Jim Slator, (1978)

It is only the wisest and most stupid who cannot change.

Confucuis, (500 BC)

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson, (1916)

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Richard M. Nixon, (1978)

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

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

Henry Ward Beecher, (1988)

I don't meet the competition, I crush it.

Charles Revson, (1958)

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade, (1979)


There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Oscar Wilde, (1895)

Silence the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theros, (1983)

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy, (1961)

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge, 1985

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli, (1845)

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus, (450 BC)

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1828.

It is easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

Robert Half, (1985)

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Charles de Gaulle, (1985)

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Thomas Kempis, (1427)

The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.

Plato, (370 BC)

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Jerome K. Jerome, (1889)

If you are going to be a bridge, you've got to be prepared to be walked upon.

Roy A. West, (1988)

One enemy is too much.

George Herbert, (1651)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841)

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Herodotus, (450 BC)

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

The greatest right in the world, is the right to be wrong.

Harry Weinberger, (1917)

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Margaret Culkin Banning, (1958)

What is left when honour is lost?

Publilius Syrus, (1st century BC)

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde, (1892)

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde, (1892)

Facts speak for themselves.

Terence, (161 BC)

Men can learn little from success, but much from failure.

proverb.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.

Homer, (550 BC)

I will not be ashamed to defend a friend.

Bible: Apocrypha

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways

Chinese proverb

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud, (1897)

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Will Rogers, (1973)

Every time you come up with a terrific idea, you find that someone else thought of it first.
Frank Harden, (1978)

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

Robert Frost, (1985)

People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.

Malcolm Kushner, (1986)

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion.

Philip Wylie, (1942)

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers, (1973)

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts, (1961)

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

John Pfeiffer, (1979)

Inflation might be called prosperity with high blood pressure.

Arnold H. Glasgow, (1966)

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Rutherford D Rogers, (1985)

Curiosity is one of the permanent, and certain, characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson, (1750)

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Brooks Adams, (1977)

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

Bob Packwood, (1986)

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

H. L. Mencken, (1985)

No one ever became extremely wicked, suddenly.

Juvenal, (ca.110)

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad, (1985)

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert, (1651)

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Jean Racine, (1677)

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

Terrence, 163 BC

The public seldom forgives twice.

Johann Kaspar Lavater, (1788)

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Henri Frédéric Ameil, (1849)

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright, (1900)

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1978)

The true leader is always led.

Carl G. Jung, (1976)

Learning is discovering that something is possible.

Fritz Perls, (1979)

Diligence is a great teacher.

Arabic proverb

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert, (1842)

Lying is an elementary means of self-defence.

Susan Sontag, (1972)

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (1580)

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

George Santayana, (1975)

Chance favours the trained mind.

Louis Pasteur, (1981)

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert, (1985)

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

Elbert Hubbard, (1988)
Try skipping a meeting if you want to find our how important it is.

Robert Townsend, (1984)

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

Dean Acheson, (1977)

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortune of others.

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

A hidden intention is a bad one.

The Universal Self Instructor, (1883)

You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra, (1979)

You lose a lot of time hating people.

Charles Péguy, (1943)

Better break your word than do worse by keeping it.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

James R. Cook, (1986)

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope, (1927)

The beginning is the most important part of any work.

Plato (370 BC)

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy, (1928)

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?

German proverb

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

John Naisbitt, (1984)

The first prerequisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

W. R. McGeary, (1988)

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

C. R. Smith, (1969)

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Richard H. Tawney, (1926)

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

Agnes Allen, (1979)

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller, (1732)

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, (1972)

Progress might have been all right once, but its gone on too long.

Ogden Nash, (1975)

That's the old American way - if you get a good thing, then over do it.

Phil Walden, (1976)

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are already going.

John Naisbitt, (1984)

Money can't buy you friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

You can choose your friends, but you are stuck with your relatives.