Cube Think - Quotes

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