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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Back To Top	-- Earl Wilson

It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again
Back To Top	-- Nikita Khrushchev
	Soviet premier offering advice to British businesspeople.

The aim of argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Back To Top	-- Joseph Joubero

[In your writing] Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Back To Top	-- Mark Twain

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations regarding the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
Back To Top	-- National Review
	From an article on the growth of federal regulations in the Oct. 24th issue

A new supply of round tuits has arrived and are available from Mary. Anyone who has been putting off work until they got a "round tuit" now has no excuse for further procrastination.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing--and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letter are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever -- unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

-- Thomas Aldrich

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Back To Top	-- Douglas Adams

Most of us know how to say nothing. Few of us know when.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
Back To Top	-- Henry David Thoreau

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
Back To Top	-- Nigel Rees

An experiment may be considered a success if no more than half of your data must be discarded to obtain correspondence with your theory.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Back To Top	-- Lily Tomlin

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.
Back To Top	-- Walter Lippmann
	(1889-1974)

Beware of one who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds themself no wiser than before. They are full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Back To Top	-- Sir John A. MacDonald
	Canada's first prime minister

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to work twelve hours a day.
Back To Top	-- Robert Frost

Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Doing a good job around here is like wetting your pants in a dark suit; you get a warm feeling, but nobody notices.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
Back To Top	-- Bob Wells

It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease; sometimes it gets replaced.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself any time.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
Back To Top	-- Abraham Lincoln
	1864 Re-Election Slogan

If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands.
Back To Top	-- An Indiana University professor
	regarding Harley-Davidson owners

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
Back To Top	-- Robert Millikan
	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Back To Top	-- Internal Western Union Memo
	1876

You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, "You gotta be in it to win it...but first, you gotta have a dead-end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance."
Back To Top	-- Dennis Miller
	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update

The meek may inherit the earth, but it's the grumpy who get promoted.
Back To Top	-- Father Francis Mulcahy
	MASH*

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Back To Top	-- Winston Churchill

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Back To Top	-- John Stuart Mill
	1806-1873

Politics: (n) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Back To Top	-- Indira Gandhi

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Back To Top	-- Irving Fisher
	Professor of Economics, Yale University,1929

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Back To Top	-- Thomas Alva Edison
	b. 1847 d. 1931

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Back To Top	-- Ashleigh Brilliant

All that you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Back To Top	-- Mark Twain

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Back To Top	-- Max Lucado

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.
Back To Top	-- [unknown]

A good leader takes a little more than his share of blame; a little less than his share of credit.
Back To Top	-- Arnold H. Glassgow

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Back To Top	-- Robert Orben

No man is under any obligation, either legal or moral, to not arrange his affairs so as to pay the minimum amount of taxes.
Back To Top	-- Judge Learned Hand

I voted for the Republicans because I didn't like the way the Democrats were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache.
Back To Top	-- Jack Mayberry

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Back To Top	-- Bruce Baum

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Back To Top	-- Gloria Steinem

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Back To Top	-- Henry Frazier
	Industrialist

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
Back To Top	-- H.L. Mencken

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.
Back To Top	-- Sun Tzu
	The Art of War

How many have the talent to become a Steven Spielberg, a Jane Austen, or an Albert Einstein? We know there was at least one of each, and maybe one is all we're allotted. I cannot help but believe, though, that there are many talented people whose aspirations and potential have been thwarted by economics and their lack of tools. New technology will offer people a new means with which to express themselves. The information highway will open undreamed-of artistic and scientific opportinities to a new generation of geniuses
Back To Top	-- Bill Gates
	In his book: The Road Ahead. Ch. 6; Pg. 134.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Back To Top	-- Sam Ewing

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Back To Top	-- Anatole France

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
Back To Top	-- Albert Einstein

You can ignore all of your customers some of the time. You can ignore some of them all of the time. But you can't ignore all of them all of the time.
Back To Top	-- Jesse Berst
	, Editorial Director for ZDNet AnchorDesk re: Microsoft's potential abandonment of Visual J++

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Back To Top	-- Walt Disney

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