It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
~Josh Billings"There's a time to keep silence and a time to speak" said Ecclesiastes. "Wisdom lies in distinguishing one from the other."
When you save face for others, your face looks better too.
If the people who always apologize for taking so much of your time really meant it, they wouldn't do it.
The time to stop talking is before people stop listening.
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople who will not admit they've been wrong love themselves more than they love the truth.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
~ DisraeliWhat you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
~ George AdamsIt is often easier to earn money than it is to spend it wisely.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process that often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
~ Dwight D. EisenhowerNo one is as tired as the person who does nothing.
There is a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Whoever loves much, does much.
~ Thomas KempisOne reason computers can do more work faster than humans, is that computers don't have to answer the phone.
A survey indicates that those who rock the boat often make the best managers - unless what they are managing is a boat.
Learn from other peoples mistakes. It's a big time saver.
You may reason, speculate, complain, form mobs, spend your life railing at Congress and your rulers, but unless you import less than you export, unless you spend less than you earn, you will be eternally poor.
~ Noah WebsterA good rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
~ Katharine WhitehornI hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.
~ Joan RiversA long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
~ VoltaireIt is well when one is judging friends, to remember that they are judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
~ Arnold BennettThings that can be postponed usually are.
Some things are done badly because they are genuinely hard to do well, and some things get done badly because nobody tried hard enough to do them well.
~ Eileen ShanahanA conviction is that splendid quality in ourselves that we call bullheadedness in others.
One of the pains of inflation is to see youngsters start their first job at a salary you dreamed of at the culmination of your career.
The difference between ourselves and others is that we don't tell half of what we know, while they don't know half of what they tell.
The impossible: What nobody can do until somebody does.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
~Han SuyinIf I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. The rest goes to the government.
~ Victor BorgePeople will be happy in about the same degree that they are helpful.
Life is something hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other. To fail to love is to cease to exist.
The trouble with some self-made men is that they worship their creator.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another
~ Charles DickensStability is more essential to success than brilliance.
~ Richard Lloyd JonesThe more right you are, the more careful you should be to express your opinion tactfully. The other fellow never likes to be proved wrong.
~John LutherThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~ Marie Henri BeyleThe rights we have today we may consider as natural rights, but they were won by blood, sweat, sacrifice, and death.
~ Dwight D. EisenhowerExperience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous HuxleyAnticipation of problems is half the battle. And the only way to anticipate is to think.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
~ William JamesLeadership, at it's highest, consists of getting people to work for you when they are under no obligation to do so.
"My definition of a good worker," says one leader "is someone who knows the right thing to do at the right time it has to be done, and does it without being told."
I have never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
~ Mike ToddThe question "who ought to be the boss?" is like asking "who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
~Henry FordNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William JamesSuccess is the Old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.
~ Charles LuckmanNothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
~ J.P. RichterAn authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
The young make the mistake of thinking that education can take the place of experience; the old, that experience can take the place of education.
A poor workman always finds fault with his tools.
People who tell what kind of people they are, usually aren't.
Have old memories but young hopes.
The first essential of doing a job well is the wish to see the job done at all.
~ Franklin Delano RooseveltThe difference between promising ideas and productive results is a good manager.
When you make out your income tax return this year, we trust that you remembered this it's better to give than to deceive.
You can never get away; you can only take yourself somewhere else.
Aggressiveness, your bad temper, is generally a result, not of wrong done to you, but a frustration. You didn't get what you expected to get.
~Ashley MontagueGood examples have twice the value of good advice.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover from, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
~ Sir William OslerBeauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil GibranThe golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; It is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; It is in yourself alone.
~Orison Swett MardenNothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~ Helen MacinnessIf you would lift me, you must be on higher ground.
~EmersonThe best way to forget your own problems is to help others solve theirs.
Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
~ Harry S. TrumanExperience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Timing is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage without a college education.
~ Mark TwainOf all forces acting on man, change is the most beneficial and the most cruel.
Deeds are fruit. Words are leaves.
You write your own paycheck every day.
Good physical condition not only adds years to your life, but life to your years.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
~ Lincoln