Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Quotable Notables

A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.



Advice when most needed is least heeded.



Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.



Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.



Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.



A banker lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.



He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.



He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.



I think, therefore I am overqualified.



Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.



A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.



War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.



You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.



A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.



The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.



It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.



Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.



Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.



There are no short cuts to any place worth going.


An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.


Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.


A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.


More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.


If at first you don't succeed - try management.


An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.


Do not underestimate your abilities.


That is your boss's job.


He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.


You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.


You should not confuse your career with your life.


Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings - they did it by killing all those who opposed them.


A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.


Without vision, we are blind to opportunity.

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.

In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Learn from the mistakes of others.

You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.

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