Everybody has 20/20 hindsight.
People who wait until they feel like doing a job rarely do.
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half finished tasks.
~ B.C. ForbesQuantity is what you can count. Quality is what you can count on.
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
~ Sidney HarrisA person has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason.
~ J. Pierpont MorganWhen I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
~ Henry FordPray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man.
~ Francis Cardinal SpellmanEveryone is enthusiastic at times. One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes - another has it for thirty days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success in life.
~ Edward B. ButlerA problem well stated is a problem half solved.
~ Charles KetteringA proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
The best part of a real estate bargain is a good neighbor.
The real test of business greatness lies in giving opportunity to others.
~ Charles SchwabMemory is something that makes you aware of what you forgot to do.
There are two kinds of discontent, bad and good. The good kind will motivate work, the bad kind will result in inactivity.
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Long ago I made up my mind to let my friends have their peculiarities.
~ David GraysonOne very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
Money often costs too much.
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonRest and play are the desserts of life - work is the meal. It is only a child who dreams of a diet of dessert alone.
~ Harold MayfieldTwo quick ways to disaster are to take nobody's advice and to take everybody's advice.
To get anywhere, strike out for somewhere, or you will get nowhere.
~ Martha LuponMany an office holder is sworn in one year and sworn at the next.
Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. Beware the genius manager. Management is doing a very few simple things and doing them well.
~ Peter F. DruckerWhen you save for a long time to buy something, then find you can't afford it - that's inflation.
When you stretch the truth, people usually see through it.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
~ P.T. BarnumWhen you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the impression you will make.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
~ Mark TwainWe should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
~ Carolyn WellsI've never been satisfied with anything we've ever built. I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.
~ J. Willard Marriot, Sr.A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.
~ Ruth Bell GrahamDon't worry about what's ahead. Just go as far as you can - from there you can see further.
Nothing will give you more free time than being punctual.
It takes a great person to give sound advice tactfully, but it takes a greater person to accept it graciously.
~ J.C. McCauleyWe tend to select top people for their character and capacity, then tend to overload them according to their willingness.
~ Clarence JonesThere is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~ Clement StoneWhat is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.
~ Oliver HerfordThose who think it's possible to tell white lies soon become color blind.
~ Austin O'MalleyThe real judges of your character aren't your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are the waiters, waitresses and clerks.
~ Katherine PiperThe best way to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
~ Lord HailshamThis would be a wonderful world if everyone was as nice as the person who's trying to sell you something.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.
~ SchopenhauerA wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Nobody lives long enough to make them all himself.
The liar's punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard ShawWhat a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
~ Mark TwainDo more than belong, participate.
Do more than care, help.
Do more than believe, practice.
Do more than be fair, be kind.
Do more than forgive, forget.
Do more than dream, work.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of themselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
~ Stewart B. JohnsonWatch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
~ Wendell WillkiePeople who talk about their inferiors haven't any.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
~ Sidney SmithThere is a big gap between advice and help.
Being yourself is the easiest thing. The most difficult thing is to be what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Gossip is the most deadly microbe. It has neither legs nor wings. It is composed entirely of tales, and most of them have stings.
~ Morris MandelThere is no such thing as an idle rumor.
A river is like intelligence - the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
You're in good shape if you are too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Bureaucracy is based upon a willingness - either pass the buck or spend it.
~ Mrs. Henry J. StewartAdversity can be a test of character, but most people can stand adversity. If you really want to test their character, give them power.
God gives us faces; we create our own expressions.
You can figure you are on the right if it's uphill.
Don't ever jump to conclusions. Dig for the facts.
The subject of deepest interest to every human being is himself.
Over optimism is waiting for your ship to come in when you haven't sent one out.
A deficit is what you have when you haven't as much as when you had nothing.
The wise learn from tragedy; the foolish merely report it.
~Michael NovakTreat your friends like family and your family like friends.
Don't watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.
~Sam LevensonIf you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles in the backside, you wouldn't be able to sit down for two weeks.
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those that have helped you.
~ Mae MalooCourage is very important. Like muscle, it is strengthened by its use.
~ Ruth GordonFrustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.
~ Oscar Wilde