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Quotes
By: Doug Brimmer
Posted: Sunday, November 2, 2008
The words and wisdom from those before us are
often useful in explaining and predicting the present and future. It
is hard to imagine that over the course of time people before us have not
witnessed similar situations that we find ourselves in everyday.
Quotes are often witty, provocative, and provide an insight that can be
helpful, especially in the business world. We at Cube Think hope the
words of others will help inspire you in your personal and professional
life.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the
American voter.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, November 6, 2008
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Saturday, November 8, 2008
“Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
-- George S. Patton
Monday, November 10, 2008
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a
depression when you lose yours.”
-- Harry S. Truman
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing
to fail.”
-- Benjamin Franklin
Friday, November 14, 2008
“Kindness is the language which the deaf
can hear and the blind can see.”
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, November 16, 2008
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
-- John F. Kennedy
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it
will eat him last.”
-- Winston Churchill
Thursday, November 20, 2008
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer
industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.”
-- Bill Gates
Saturday, November 22, 2008
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always
clearer than the windshield.”
-- Warren Buffett
Monday, November 24, 2008
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
-- Albert Einstein
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”
-- Margaret Thatcher
Friday, November 28, 2008
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
-- Yogi Berra
Sunday, November 30, 2008
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of
learning is a calamity to any people.”
-- Frederick Douglass
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart
colleagues.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thursday, December 4, 2008
“No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man
in the right place.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, December 6, 2008
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do
matters very much.”
-- Jackie Kennedy
Monday, December 8, 2008
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astound ourselves.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
Friday, December 12, 2008
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit
to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
-- George Washington
Sunday, December 14, 2008
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do
the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
-- John Maynard Keynes
Thursday, December 18, 2008
“Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.”
-- Marc Brown
Saturday, December 20, 2008
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only
you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other
people spend it for you.”
-- Carl Sandburg
Monday, December 22, 2008
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their
own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
-- James Madison
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our
childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and
transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
-- Charles Dickens
Thursday, December 25, 2008
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
-- Charles Dickens
Friday, December 26, 2008
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
-- W. C. Fields
Sunday, December 28, 2008
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there.”
-- Will Rogers
Saturday, January 3, 2009
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I
go into the other room and read a book.”
-- Groucho Marx
Monday, January 5, 2009
“Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.”
-- John Wayne
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do
something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”
-- Lee Iacocca
Friday, January 9, 2009
“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”
-- Harvey S. Firestone
Sunday, January 11, 2009
“A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its
pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love
of learning.”
-- Laura Bush
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive
pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of
the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”
-- Herbert Hoover
Thursday, January 15, 2009
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
-- Wayne Gretzky
Saturday, January 17, 2009
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter.”
-- Jack Benny
Monday, January 19, 2009
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole
staircase.”
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
“I happen, temporarily, to occupy the White House. I am a living witness
that any of your children may come here as my father's child has.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, January 22, 2009
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
-- Mario Cuomo
Saturday, January 24, 2009
“Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like
'Psychic Wins Lottery'?”
-- Jay Leno
Monday, January 26, 2009
“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse,
for any reason, whenever it's possible.”
-- Milton Friedman
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that
everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is
there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for
contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”
-- W. Edwards Deming
Friday, January 30, 2009
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is
discipline, carrying it out.”
-- Stephen Covey
Sunday, February 1, 2009
“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with
all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other
way to live.”
-- Joe Montana
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have
to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me,
I'd still have to say it.”
-- George Burns
Thursday, February 5, 2009
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit
on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot
from a winning touchdown.”
-- Ross Perot
Saturday, February 7, 2009
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
-- Milton Berle
Monday, February 9, 2009
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is
nothing.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
“When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've
bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You
just don't know when you can find the bottom.”
-- Peter Lynch
Thursday, February 12, 2009
“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in
your years.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
Saturday, February 14, 2009
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is
finally better than your dreams.”
-- Dr. Seuss
Monday, February 16, 2009
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
-- George Washington
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it.”
-- Henry Ford
Friday, February 20, 2009
“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole,
clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
-- Andrew Carnegie
Sunday, February 22, 2009
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
-- George Washington Carver
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
“I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers
stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the
most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.”
-- Jim Cramer
Thursday, February 26, 2009
“There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the
ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do
something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.”
-- Alfred P. Sloan
Saturday, February 28, 2009
“I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn
and cross it deliberately.”
-- George Carlin
Monday, March 2, 2009
“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what
you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
-- Ray Kroc
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
-- Winston Churchill
Friday, March 6, 2009
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it
takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation
that he is in error.”
-- Andrew Jackson
Sunday, March 8, 2009
“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order
is.”
-- Steve Martin
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Thursday, March 12, 2009
“Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay
for them so they're a necessary evil.”
-- Michael Bloomberg
Saturday, March 14, 2009
“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little
torches out to lead people through the dark.”
-- Whoopi Goldberg
Monday, March 16, 2009
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big
enough to take from you everything you have.”
-- Gerald R. Ford
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
“Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing,
self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a
nation.”
-- Frank Sinatra
Friday, March 20, 2009
“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
-- Walter Cronkite
Sunday, March 22, 2009
“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been
successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into
adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.”
-- Bob Newhart
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like
they cannot be done.”
-- Arnold Palmer
Thursday, March 26, 2009
“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" --
pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for
shareholders.”
-- T. Boone Pickens
Saturday, March 28, 2009
“I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible.
A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients: it will be clean
and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.”
-- Jimmy Stewart
Monday, March 30, 2009
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction
than that connected with advances in science.”
-- Isaac Newton
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.”
-- Winston Churchill
Friday, April 3, 2009
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
-- Stephen Covey
Sunday, April 5, 2009
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and
we're gonna make mistakes.”
-- Mel Brooks
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their
problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost
confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a
failure of leadership.”
-- Colin Powell
Thursday, April 9, 2009
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world.”
-- Nelson Mandela
Saturday, April 11, 2009
“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
-- Yogi Berra
Monday, April 13, 2009
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really
true, there would be little hope of advance.”
-- Orville Wright
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.”
-- Helen Keller
Friday, April 17, 2009
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be
alone than in bad company.”
-- Booker T. Washington
Sunday, April 19, 2009
“Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need
to laugh.”
-- Carl Reiner
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-- Benjamin Franklin
Thursday, April 23, 2009
“The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small,
bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
Saturday, April 25, 2009
“I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would
be honest.”
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Monday, April 27, 2009
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
-- Thomas Paine
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
-- Harvey S. Firestone
Friday, May 1, 2009
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
stop to look fear in the face.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sunday, May 3, 2009
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”
-- Jimmy Durante
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work.
Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything
worthwhile.”
-- Walter Chrysler
Thursday, May 7, 2009
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to
wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Saturday, May 9, 2009
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life
the feeling of a conqueror.”
-- Sigmund Freud
Monday, May 11, 2009
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly
and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
-- John Maynard Keynes
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
-- Jack Welch
Friday, May 15, 2009
“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly
for fifty years.”
-- Wilbur Wright
Sunday, May 17, 2009
“The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't
see him laughing at you.”
-- Phyllis Diller
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can
accomplish.”
-- Sam Walton
Thursday, May 21, 2009
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly;
sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
-- Ernest Hemingway
Saturday, May 23, 2009
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
-- Lucille Ball
Monday, May 25, 2009
“They summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of
men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death and thus resolved
all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and virtue.”
-- James A. Garfield
Memorial Day, 1868
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Friday, May 29, 2009
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, May 31, 2009
“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”
-- Goldie Hawn
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
“Bankruptcy is totally out of the question. We have never contemplated it.”
-- Bob Lutz
(former GM Vice Chairman - Global Product Development)
Thursday, June 4, 2009
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with
open eyes, to make them possible”
-- Thomas E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia)
Saturday, June 6, 2009
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
-- Woody Allen
Monday, June 8, 2009
“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to
death.”
-- Omar N. Bradley
(U.S. General - World War II)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind
young.”
-- Henry Ford
Friday, June 12, 2009
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in
the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
-- Robert Frost
Sunday, June 14, 2009
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
-- Yogi Berra
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the
contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
-- John J. Pershing
(General of the Armies - Army of the United States)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence.”
-- Abigail Adams
Saturday, June 20, 2009
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a
father's protection.”
-- Sigmund Freud
Monday, June 22, 2009
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
-- Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process
never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own
responsibility.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friday, June 26, 2009
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world
knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt
with.”
-- Michael Jackson
Sunday, June 28, 2009
“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not
exist except in our imaginations.”
-- Steve Allen
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
“In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate
rules.”
-- Bernard Madoff
Thursday, July 2, 2009
“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good
leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome."
You must be willing to fire.”
-- T. Boone Pickens
Saturday, July 4, 2009
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
(Declaration of Independence)
Monday, July 6, 2009
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats
believe every day is April 15.”
-- Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was
produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability
of the private economy.”
-- Milton Friedman
Friday, July 10, 2009
“I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up
front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing
to sacrifice to accomplish it.”
-- Lee Iacocca
Sunday, July 12, 2009
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it,
and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”
-- Groucho Marx
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, July 16, 2009
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal,
before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him
safely to the earth.”
-- John F. Kennedy
Saturday, July 18, 2009
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and
do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our
energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to
accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win,
and the others, too.”
-- John F. Kennedy
Monday, July 20, 2009
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
-- Neil Armstrong
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
“And that's the way it is.”
-- Walter Cronkite
Friday, July 24, 2009
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
Sunday, July 26, 2009
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as
something to aim at.”
-- Bruce Lee
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what
you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
-- Ray Kroc
Thursday, July 30, 2009
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or
legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or
parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the
common people.”
-- Walt Whitman
Saturday, August 1, 2009
“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated,
so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.”
-- Dave Barry
Monday, August 3, 2009
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of
people.”
-- Isaac Newton
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
“To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a
job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”
-- Barbara Walters
Friday, August 7, 2009
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, August 9, 2009
“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and
how you get along with your fellow man.”
-- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
“I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and
its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our
enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to
finding it. And we knew the disaster, which would come to this Nation, and
to all peace-loving nations, to all civilization, if they had found it
first.”
-- Harry S. Truman
Thursday, August 13, 2009
“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a
chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for
service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village,
without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded
hope.”
-- Herbert Hoover
Saturday, August 15, 2009
“He who laughs most, learns best.”
-- John Cleese
Monday, August 17, 2009
“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the
sunshine of the people.”
-- James A. Garfield
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
“With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me,
I'm running out of chances.”
-- Brett Favre
Friday, August 21, 2009
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also
leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
Sunday, August 23, 2009
“I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream
basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you
want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.”
-- Whoopi Goldberg
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
-- Mao Zedong
Thursday, August 27, 2009
“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else
is.”
-- Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy
Saturday, August 29, 2009
“People liked him.”
-- Senator Christopher Dodd
(Paying tribute to Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy)
Monday, August 31, 2009
“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams
shall never die.”
-- Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I
give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or
swelling.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
Friday, September 4, 2009
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good.
Understanding is joyous.”
-- Carl Sagan
Sunday, September 6, 2009
“You always pass failure on your way to success.”
-- Mickey Rooney
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
“You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board
that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions
on your own.”
-- Rupert Murdoch
Thursday, September 10, 2009
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently.”
-- Henry Ford
Saturday, September 12, 2009
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making
the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”
-- Gilda Radner
Monday, September 14, 2009
“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break
that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
-- Indira Gandhi
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
Friday, September 18, 2009
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard
work.”
-- Booker T. Washington
Sunday, September 20, 2009
“The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then
pick it up.”
-- Bob Uecker
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
-- Alexander Hamilton
Thursday, September 24, 2009
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed
at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to
me.”
-- Steve Jobs
Saturday, September 26, 2009
“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
-- Bob Hope
Monday, September 28, 2009
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at
doing what they most enjoy.”
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not
being right.”
-- Mario Cuomo
Friday, October 2, 2009
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunday, October 4, 2009
“Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.”
-- Jonathan Winters
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a
new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new
and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”
-- Norman Rockwell
Thursday, October 8, 2009
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that.
Word of mouth is very powerful.”
-- Jeff Bezos
Saturday, October 10, 2009
“Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their
pets spayed or neutered.”
-- Bob Barker
Monday, October 12, 2009
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world.
But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
-- Walt Disney
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast
cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate
indignity to the democratic process.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
Friday, October 16, 2009
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sunday, October 18, 2009
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”
-- Red Skelton
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
“America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our
country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.”
-- Nelson Rockefeller
Thursday, October 22, 2009
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in
the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your
life.”
-- Jackie Robinson
Saturday, October 24, 2009
“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
-- Jimmy Stewart
Monday, October 26, 2009
“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
-- Herbert Hoover
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they
quit playing.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friday, October 30, 2009
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the
company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere
else.”
-- Sam Walton
Sunday, November 1, 2009
“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”
-- Boris Karloff
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of
government to their own selfish purposes.”
-- Andrew Jackson
Thursday, November 5, 2009
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
-- Helen Keller
Saturday, November 7, 2009
“Funny is funny is funny.”
-- Bob Newhart
Monday, November 9, 2009
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak.”
-- John Adams
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one
of those men who goes into battle.”
-- Norman Schwarzkopf
Friday, November 13, 2009
“It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
-- Vincent Price
Sunday, November 15, 2009
“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute
clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”
-- Gilda Radner
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that
others waste.”
-- Henry Ford
Thursday, November 19, 2009
“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve
what they want to achieve.”
-- Tom Landry
Saturday, November 21, 2009
“I love football. I think it is the most wonderful game in the world and I
despise to lose. I've hated to lose ever since I was a kid and threw away
the mallets when I lost at croquet.”
-- Woody Hayes
Monday, November 23, 2009
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
-- Will Rogers
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from
us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and
shows itself in deeds.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Friday, November 27, 2009
“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that
each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”
-- Dave Barry
Sunday, November 29, 2009
“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy
the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and
the ecstasy of the purchase.”
-- Erma Bombeck
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you
are.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
Thursday, December 3, 2009
“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that
is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.”
-- Henry Kissinger
Saturday, December 5, 2009
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
-- Jackie Chan
Monday, December 7, 2009
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing
the right man to do it.”
-- Andrew Carnegie
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling
a field as in writing a poem.”
-- Booker T. Washington
Friday, December 11, 2009
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, December 13, 2009
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the
eyes of others.”
-- Ellen DeGeneres
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the
tail and face the situation.”
-- W. C. Fields
Thursday, December 17, 2009
“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.”
-- Roy Disney
Saturday, December 19, 2009
“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful.”
-- Ann Landers
Monday, December 21, 2009
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace
and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of
Christmas.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and
not be a child.”
-- Erma Bombeck
Friday, December 25, 2009
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we
are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again
at Christmas-time.”
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sunday, December 27, 2009
“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our
mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.”
-- Barbara Bush
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words
await another voice.”
-- T.S. Eliot
Thursday, December 31, 2009
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
Saturday, January 2, 2010
“New Year's Day -- Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good
resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
-- Mark Twain
Monday, January 4, 2010
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let
each New Year find you a better man.”
-- Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
“This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism,
but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.”
-- Tony Blair
Friday, January 8, 2010
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in
the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the
ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and
the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
Sunday, January 10, 2010
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and
there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
-- Gore Vidal
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you
respect me as a human being.”
-- Jackie Robinson
Thursday, January 14, 2010
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
-- Winston Churchill
Saturday, January 16, 2010
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money
can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love
everywhere you go.”
-- Mother Teresa
Monday, January 18, 2010
“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and
agree with me, that's not their job.”
-- Margaret Thatcher
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people
really want and think.”
-- James A. Garfield
Friday, January 22, 2010
“Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if
you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly
utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”
-- Milton Friedman
Sunday, January 24, 2010
“It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.”
-- Jimmy Stewart
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
“I think the first duty of society is justice.”
-- Alexander Hamilton
Thursday, January 28, 2010
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone.”
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Saturday, January 30, 2010
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
-- Yogi Berra
Monday, February 1, 2010
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is
the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
-- Robert H. Goddard
Friday, February 5, 2010
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten
years mere study of books.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunday, February 7, 2010
“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work,
sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
-- Vince Lombardi
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job
is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the
ways and get the resources for the key projects.”
-- Steve Jobs
Thursday, February 11, 2010
“It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.”
-- Arnold Palmer
Saturday, February 13, 2010
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
-- Oscar Wilde
Monday, February 15, 2010
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
-- Albert Einstein
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late
to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.”
-- Bill Gates
Friday, February 19, 2010
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, February 21, 2010
“Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of
fearlessness you develop.”
-- Jack Nicholson
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be
misunderstood.”
-- William Howard Taft
Thursday, February 25, 2010
“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how
to get along without it.”
-- Walt Disney
Saturday, February 27, 2010
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a
saddle horse.”
-- Jackie Kennedy
Monday, March 1, 2010
“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
-- Herman Melville
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I
motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having
productive ideas to make others feel involved.”
-- Rupert Murdoch
Friday, March 5, 2010
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
Sunday, March 7, 2010
“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
-- Jonathan Winters
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
-- Isaac Newton
Thursday, March 11, 2010
“Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to
have principles when you're poor.”
-- Ray Kroc
Saturday, March 13, 2010
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to
give it.”
-- Agatha Christie
Monday, March 15, 2010
“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and
is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of
persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be
worth defending.”
-- Andrew Jackson
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.”
-- Grover Cleveland
Friday, March 19, 2010
“If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.”
-- Alfred P. Sloan
Sunday, March 21, 2010
“One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
-- Georgia O'Keefe
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
“In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, March 25, 2010
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who
haven`t had any moral compass, who`ve just changed to say whatever they
thought the popular thing was, in the end they`re losers.”
-- Michael Bloomberg
Saturday, March 27, 2010
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
-- Garrison Keillor
Monday, March 29, 2010
“Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette -
the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.”
-- John Tyler
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at
the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
Friday, April 2, 2010
“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...
looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the
infinite highway of the air.”
-- Wilbur Wright
Sunday, April 4, 2010
“Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ”
-- Robin Williams
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't,
and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
-- Robert Frost
Thursday, April 8, 2010
“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter
how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain
it: work.”
-- Jack Nicklaus
Saturday, April 10, 2010
“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work
at it, it's golf.”
-- Bob Hope
Monday, April 12, 2010
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people
alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And
to render them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries
any reward.”
-- John Maynard Keynes
Friday, April 16, 2010
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
Sunday, April 18, 2010
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little
curlicue at the end.”
-- Sid Caesar
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without
flinching but also without attempting to play God.”
-- Henry Kissinger
Thursday, April 22, 2010
“What is right and what is practicable are two different things.”
-- James Buchanan
Saturday, April 24, 2010
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets
the more interested he is in her.”
-- Agatha Christie
Monday, April 26, 2010
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective
as their stringent execution.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they
degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their
sovereignty.”
-- James Monroe
Friday, April 30, 2010
“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create
products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.”
-- Robert Kiyosaki
Sunday, May 2, 2010
“If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at
54.”
-- Willie Shoemaker
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in
the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our
communication with others.”
-- Tony Robbins
Thursday, May 6, 2010
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it
becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows
exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds
it.”
-- Alexander Graham Bell
Saturday, May 8, 2010
“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is
generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business
-- live concerts.”
-- Elvis Presley
Monday, May 10, 2010
“Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are
discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do
anything about that.”
-- Golda Meir
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
“Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.”
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
Friday, May 14, 2010
“Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are
important.”
-- David Brinkley
Sunday, May 16, 2010
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the
government.”
-- Woody Allen
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do
the wrong thing.”
-- Tony Blair
Thursday, May 20, 2010
“Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their
minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other
object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.”
-- P.T. Barnum
Saturday, May 22, 2010
“I get paid for what most kids get punished for.”
-- Jerry Lewis
Monday, May 24, 2010
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do
your best.”
-- W. Edwards Deming
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
Friday, May 28, 2010
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and
she-roes!”
-- Maya Angelou
Sunday, May 30, 2010
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment
to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that
will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
-- Mario Andretti
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
“Lead from the front.”
-- Audie Murphy
Thursday, June 3, 2010
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
-- Walt Disney
Saturday, June 5, 2010
“He set quite an example. He was more like a parent than a coach. He really
was a very selfless and giving human being, but he was a disciplinarian. We
learned all about those aspects of life that most kids want to skip over. He
wouldn't let us do that.”
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Talking about former UCLA Basketball Coach John
Wooden)
Monday, June 7, 2010
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
-- John Wooden
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's
too late.”
-- Agatha Christie
Friday, June 11, 2010
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
-- George Washington Carver
Sunday, June 13, 2010
“Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running
taxicabs or cutting hair.”
-- George Burns
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over
it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers
that fear.”
-- Nelson Mandela
Thursday, June 17, 2010
“Forget your opponents; always play against par.”
-- Sam Snead
Saturday, June 19, 2010
“I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.”
-- Gerald R. Ford
Monday, June 21, 2010
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
-- Dale Carnegie
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
“Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep
on pushing.”
-- Jacques Cousteau
Friday, June 25, 2010
“In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.”
-- William Randolph Hearst
Sunday, June 27, 2010
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
-- Pele
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social
progress but they regard the things government does for others as
socialism.”
-- Earl Warren
Thursday, July 1, 2010
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state
is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
-- Thomas Paine
Saturday, July 3, 2010
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
Monday, July 5, 2010
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”
-- Daniel Webster
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish
the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
Friday, July 9, 2010
“I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he
will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will
not be accidental.”
-- Pele
Sunday, July 11, 2010
“Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.”
-- Bob Uecker
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling
badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep
swinging.”
-- Hank Aaron
Thursday, July 15, 2010
“I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.”
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
Saturday, July 17, 2010
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the
responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a
glimpse of the possibility.”
-- John Lennon
Monday, July 19, 2010
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the
highest tribute.”
-- Thurgood Marshall
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just
to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.”
-- William Faulkner
Friday, July 23, 2010
“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
-- Babe Ruth
Sunday, July 25, 2010
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
-- Norman Rockwell
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through
argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
-- Colin Powell
Thursday, July 29, 2010
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, July 31, 2010
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.”
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
