- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)
- The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else must somehow, in a sense, be kidding. (John Updike)
- Travel is a means to an end. HOME. (Ikea ad on London Underground map)
- The brand (Porsche) is a potent fusion of engineering flair, history and aspiration. (Stephen Bailey, The Times)
- Porsche doesn't make racing cars, it makes weapons (Enzo Ferrari)
- You're only as old as the woman you feel (Groucho Marx)
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln)
- I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. (Rita Rudner)
- The longest word in the Fnglish language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'. (Hal Eaton)
- I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. (Rodney Dangerfield)
- The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. (Jackie Gleason)
- What makes me tick? I don't know, but the noise is driving me nuts. (Michael Hayward)
- Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children" (Author Unknown)
- My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim. (Paula Poundstone)
- From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. (Sophie Tucker)
- Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. (Rene Yasenek)
- The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. (Cher)
- Beware of the man who praises women's liberation, he is about to quit his job. (Erica Jong)
- A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? (Jane Wagner)
- The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. (Author Unknown)
- A good film is when the price of dinner, the theater admission and the baby sitter were worth it. (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Everybody has a plan till they get punched in the mouth. (Mike Tyson)
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago (Warren Buffett)
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up (Thomas Edison)
- If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail (Abraham Maslow)
- The best way to predict the future is to create it (Peter Drucker)
- Sacred cows make the best hamburgers (Mark Twain)
- Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise (Ted Turner)
- The time will never be just right (Napoleon Hill)
- If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? (Joe Namath)
- It's kind of fun to do the impossible (Walt Disney)
- Act! Action will delineate and define you (Thomas Jefferson)
- I'll tell you what's better than a sunrise, sleeping through it (Daniel Tosh)
- Nobody goes there no more; it's too crowded (Yogi Berra)
- Make you crumble to the ground like a controlled demolition (ZACH HILLESLAND, NYT)
- A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week (George Patton)
- A tsunami watch doesn't mean go watch the tsunami (Steve Clark, Deputy Police Chief, CA)
- How do you compare apples and oranges? You need to implement IComparable interface on the Fruit superclass. (Nameless)
- The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea (William Benton)
- A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain (Mark Twain)
- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli)
- Lies, damn lies and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli)
- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision. (Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011)
- There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible and wrong. (American social critic H.L. Mencken, 1920)
- I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work. (Thomas Edison)
- We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. (Milton Berle)
- I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. (Steven Spielberg)
- Don't look for other's approval. Create and Enjoy Your Own. (Lori Moreno)
- There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. (Tom Peters)
- Letting go of your dreams results in mediocrity. (Glen Thomas)
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Jim Rohn)
- The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. (Ray Kroc)
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington)
- Success builds character, failure reveals it. (Dave Checkett)
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Donald Kendall)
- If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.(Albert Einstein)
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. (Herman Cain)
- In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Bill Cosby)
- My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
- If you don’t get fired at least once, you’re not trying hard enough. (Sallie Krawcheck)
- If you think the math isn't important, you don't know the right math. (Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, 2000 World Series of Poker champion)
- Insist on yourself;never imitate. (Emerson)
- I don't believe there's any problem in this country that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore. (George Carlin)
- Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit. Genius is hitting a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)
- Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. (Martin Luther King)
- If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
- It always seems impossible until it's done. (Nelson Mandella)
- Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. (Michael Jordan)
- The market timing Hall of Fame is an empty room. (Jane Bryant Quinn, financial journalist)
- A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)
- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. (Wayne Gretzky)
- Bull markets don't die of old age, they die from excesses. (Leon Cooperman)
- There are only two types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't. (Unknown)
- Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. (L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)
- One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us (Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices)
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. (Marcus Aurelius)
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian)
- A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. (Bruce Lee)
- Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. (Albert Einstein)
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)
- The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' (Ronald Reagan)
- I've Not Failed. I've Just Found Ways That Do Not Work. (Thomas Edison)
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius)
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison)
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. (C.S. Lewis)
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Mark Twain)
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
- The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. (Elie Wiesel)
- The best revenge is massive success. (Frank Sinatra)
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely. (Warren Buffett)
- Quality Means Doing It Right When No One is Looking. (Henry Ford)
- If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. (Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors)
- If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything you'd like. (R.H. Coase, British economist)
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Alexander Pope)
- First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots. (Warren Buffett)
- Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Seneca)
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. (Leo Tolstoy)
- Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
- Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it it time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)
- Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. (Michael Jordan)
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. (Lee Iacocca)
- The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. (Phil Jackson)
- No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. (Reid Hoffman)
- Market timing hall of fame is an empty room. (Jane Bryant Quinn)
- Only losers add to losers. (Paul Tudor Jones)
- There's nothing to prevent the federal government from creating as much money as it wants. (Alan Greenspan)
- Some folks are wise and some otherwise. (Josh Billings)
- Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something. (Josh Billings)
- Men who have much to say use the fewest words.(Josh Billings)
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. (Josh Billings)
- We will not have any more crashes in our time. (John Maynard Keynes in 1927)
- If you show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome. (Charlie Munger)
- Leadership is an action, not a position. (Donald McGannon)
- Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion (Dr. William Edwards Deming)
- At 70 years old if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words ‘fuck off’ much more frequently. (Helen Mirren)
- Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. (Sir John Templeton)
- BY FAILING TO PREPARE, YOU ARE PREPARING TO FAIL (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN)
- There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it. (George Bernard Shaw)
- Your past is just a story. Once you realize this, it has no power over you. (Anon)
- The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. (George Bernard Shaw)
- Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (George Bernard Shaw)
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)
- The beatings will continue until morale improves. (Stephen Hawking)
- I'd prefer to be approximately right rather than precisely wrong. (Keynes)
- People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent. (Bob Dylan)
- The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. (H.G. Wells)
- Most of the problems in the world are caused by people wanting to be important. (T.S. Elliott)
- The two most important days of your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)
- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (Steven Wright)
- If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. (Steven Wright)
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. (Steven Wright)
- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. (Steven Wright)
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. (Steven Wright)
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. (Albert Einstein)
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
- Education is not the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think. (Albert Einstein)
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