Past Quotation Corner

"Anyone can do it when it's easy."

"There is no try, only do, doing and done."

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee." Benjamin Franklin

"Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." - Karl Marx, Capital

"Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy" - Carlyle
"Ever notice that putting the words 'The IRS' together spells THEIRS?"
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny - Elbert Hubbard

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."    -- Anonymous

"To change and to improve are two different things."   -- German Proverb

"Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes."    -- William Wister Haines

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
--Gertrude Stein

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
   -- Nikki Giovanni

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

-- Martin L. King, Jr.

Have a vision not clouded by fear.
--Cherokee Proverb

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson later." -Martha King Flight Instructor

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us." Thomas L. Holdcroft

"Most try, few do." -- Obvious

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."   -- Mahatma Ghandi

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."    -- Thomas Edison

"There is no substitute for hard work."    -- Thomas Edison

"Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them."    -- Anonymous

"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."
   -- Anonymous

"The cautious seldom err."
   -- Confucius

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."    -- Niels Henrik David Bohr

"Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough."    -- Wess Roberts

"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them."
   -- Dan McKinnon

Cut your losses and let your profits run.
--Proverb
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
--General George S. Patton
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
--Henry Ford
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence
--Vince Lombardi
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
--Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
Remember that time is money.
--Benjamin Franklin
Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes
--Benjamin Franklin
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
The truth is more important than the facts.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
--Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese proverb
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
--Chinese Proverb
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
--Proverb
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man
--Mark Twain
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything
--Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
--Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
--Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
--Mark Twain
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
--Mark Twain
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.
--Sun Tzu
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal
--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton Rhodes Scholar, former President
Gentlemen, Why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I would die.
--Abraham LIncoln (1809-1865)

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Too much of a good thing is wonderful!
--Mae West
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
--Margaret Thatcher
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
--Confucius
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
--Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
--Confucius
You don't face your fears, you stand up to them.
--Unknown