Mother Love Quotes - George Eliot

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“The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.”George Eliot (1819 – 80) British novelist

Quality Pride Quotes - Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Pride should consist in doing your job in the best possible manner.”Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) Indian prime minister

Love - Lovable Quotes - Ovid

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“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.) Roman poet

Childhood Quotes - Graham Greene

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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”Graham Greene (1904 – 91) British novelist and critic

Discover Future Quotes - H G Wells

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“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) English science fiction novelist

Fear of Unknown Quotes - Lovecraft

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”H. P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) U.S. short-story writer

Funny Quotes - Woman - Helen Rowland

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“It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Home Quotes - Madeleine L Engle

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“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.”Madeleine L’Engle (b. 1918) U.S. author of children's books

Intellect - Quotes - Niccolo Machiavelli

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“There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.”Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Italian political philosopher and playwright

Famous Quotes - Life - Shakespeare

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“All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Success Quotes - Barbara Ehrenreich

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“The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.”Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941) U.S. writer and political activist

Like Work - Quotes - Joseph Conrad

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“I don't like work – no man does – but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know.”Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) British novelist

Work - Fun Quotes - Noel Coward

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“The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Life - Children Quotes - Kahlil Gibran

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“Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They came through you but not from youAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) U.S. artist, poet, and writer

Mother Quotes - Rudyard Kipling

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“If I were damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.”Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Attitude Quotes - Norman Vincent Peale

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“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.”Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993) U.S. religious leader and author

Employee Employer Quotes - Schumacher

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“It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.”E. F. Schumacher (1911 – 77) British economist

Conviction - Choice Quotes - Epictetus

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“It is your own conviction which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.”Epictetus (55? - 135?) Greek philosopher

Life Goals Quotes - Logan Pearsall Smith

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“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” [read business fable]Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946) British essayist and critic

Work - Death Quotes - CS Lewis

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“Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.”C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) British novelist and scholar

Divorce - Humor Quotes - Woody Allen

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“It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director

Judges - Humor Quotes - Peter Cook

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“And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and ill and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges.”Peter Cook (1937 – 95) English writer and comedian

Middle Age Quotes - Frank Hubbard

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“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868 – 1930) U.S. cartoonist and humorist

Funny Sex Quotes - Noel Coward

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“When Eve said to Adam'Start calling me Madam'The world became far more exciting;Which turns to confusion,The modern delusionThat sex is a question of lighting.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Funny Marriage Quotes - Billy Connolly

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“Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”Billy Connolly (b. 1942) Scottish comedian

Leadership Quotes - Warren Bennis

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“Leaders have no interest in proving themselves, but an abiding interest in expressing themselves.”Warren Bennis (b. 1925) U.S. lecturer and writer

Famous Quotes - Parents - Edna Gladney

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“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.”Edna Gladney (1886 – 1961) U.S. activist

Children Quotes - Fear - George V

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“My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”George V (1865 – 1936) British King

Parenting Quotes - Francis Bacon

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“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.”Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) English philosopher and statesman

Mother Woman Quotes - William Wallace

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“For the hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.”William Ross Wallace (1819 – 1881) U.S. lawyer and poet

Mothers Parents Quotes - Taylor

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“Who ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it well?My Mother.”Ann Taylor (1782 – 1866) and Jane Taylor (1783 – 1824) English poets and children's authors

Children Parents Quotes - Ogden Nash

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“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,And that's what parents were created for.”Ogden Nash (1902 – 71) U.S. poet and humorist

Food Quotes - Oyster - Jonathan Swift

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“He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.”Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish writer and satirist

Think - Speak Quotes - EM Forster

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“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”E. M. Forster (1879 – 1970) British novelist and short-story writer

War Money - Classic Quotes - Cicero

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“The sinews of war: unlimited money.”Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.) Roman orator and statesman

Mistakes Quotes - Bernard Shaw

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Internet Strategy Quotes - Mary Cronin

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“For many businesses, the Internet is still a technology in search of a strategy.”Mary J. Cronin (b. 1947) U.S. business author

Internet Change Quotes - Warren Buffett

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“Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.”Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Market Morals Quote - Michael Heseltine

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“The market has no morality.”Michael Heseltine (b. 1933) British politician and businessman

Stock Market Quotes - George Soros

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“Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really tough the authorities will step in.”George Soros (b. 1930) U.S. financial speculator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist

Independence Quotes - Jules Archibald

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“Never sing in chorus, if you want to be heard.”Jules Archibald (1856 – 1919) Australian journalist and publisher

Computer Quotes - Michael Bloomberg

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“The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.”Michael Bloomberg (b. 1942) U.S. politician and founder of Bloomberg L.P.

No Speculation - Quotes - Mark Twain

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“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can afford it, and when he can't.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Sex Quotes - Humor - Horace Walpole

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“This sublime age reduces everything to its quintessence; all periphrases and expletives are so much in disuse, that I suppose soon the only way to making love will be to say 'Lie down.'”Horace Walpole (1717 – 97) British politician and writer

Humor - Journalism Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Classic Quotes - Liberty - Patrick Henry

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“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”Patrick Henry (1736 – 99) U.S. revolutionist

April - Seasons Quotes - TS Eliot

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“April is the cruellest month.”T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Death - Wealth Quotes - Andrew Carnegie

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“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) U.S. industrialist and philanthropist

Persistence Quotes - Marie Curie

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“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) French winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, and the Nobel Prize in chemistry (the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different science fields)

Conscience Quotes - Shakespeare

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“A peace above all earthly dignities,A still and quiet conscience.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Responsibility Quotes - John Newman

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“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”John Henry Newman (1801 – 90) British cardinal and theologian

Bureaucracy Quotes - James Boren

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“Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.” [read business fable]James H. Boren (b. 1925) U.S. lecturer and satirist

Art - Painting Quotes - Pablo Picasso

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“People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor

Education Learning Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Innovation Quotes - Albert Szent Gyorgyi

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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 – 1986) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Wise Quotes - Details - William James

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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”William James (1842 – 1910) U.S. psychologist and philosopher

Humanity Quotes - Blaise Pascal

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“There are only two kinds of men: those righteous who believe themselves sinners; the other sinners who believe themselves righteous.”Blaise Pascal (1623 – 62) French mathematician and religious philosopher

Change Quotes - Franklin Roosevelt

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“Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.”Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) U.S. president

Grief Quotes - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 96) U.S. abolitionist and writer

Government Wages Quotes - Ricardo

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“Wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.”David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) British political economist

Thinking - Survival Quotes - Gasset

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“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”José Ortega Y Gasset (1883 – 1955) Spanish philosopher

Power - Principles Quotes - Ron Todd

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“You don't have power if you surrender all your principles – you have office.”Ron Todd (1927 - 2005) British trade union leader

Boss - Executives Quotes - Scott Adams

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“Executives can get away with having a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough.” [read business fable]Scott Adams (b. 1957) U.S. cartoonist and business writer

Humor - Lawyers Quotes - Sam Ewing

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“When the meek inherit the earth, lawyers will be there to work out the deal.”Sam Ewing (1920 – 2001) U.S. author

Meek - Humility Quotes - Don Marquis

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“Pity the Meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”Don Marquis (1878 – 1937) U.S. journalist, humorist, and playwright

Elephant Memory Quotes - Noel Coward

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“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact elephants often consult me.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Classic Sex Quotes - Mae West

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“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”Mae West (1893 – 1980) U.S. actress and playwright

Cats - Work Quotes - Kingsley Amis

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“Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it ... it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you.”Kingsley Amis (1922 – 95) British novelist and poet

Target - Goal Quotes - James Callaghan

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“You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.”James Callaghan (1912 - 2005) British prime minister

Meetings Quotes - Michael Eisner

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“I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.”Michael Eisner (b. 1942) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. of The Walt Disney Company

Choice Quotes - Mary Parker Follett

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“We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.”Mary Parker Follett (1868 – 1933) U.S. management theorist and author

Quotes - Dream - Martin Luther King

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“I have a dream ...” [read business-fable]Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Day Dream Quotes - Edgar Allan Poe

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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” [read business-fable]Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 49) U.S. poet and short-story writer

Achieve - Dreams Quotes - William Ward

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“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” [read business-fable]William Arthur Ward (1921 – 94) U.S. writer

Motivation Quotes - Anthony Robbins

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“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” [read business-fable]Anthony Robbins (b. 1960) U.S. motivational speaker and writer

Accomplishment Quote - Anatole France

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” [read business-fable]Anatole France (1844 – 1924) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Idiot - Congress Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Leadership Quotes - Clarence Randall

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“The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.”Clarence B. Randall (1891 – 1967) U.S. industrialist

Change Attitude Quotes - Harvey Jones

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“Change is an attitude of mind and the place to start is within ourselves.”John Harvey-Jones (b. 1924) British management adviser and chairman of ICI

Terrorist Hijacker Quotes - Thatcher

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“We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) British prime minister

Government - Taxation Quotes - Voltaire

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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”Voltaire (1694 – 1778) French writer and philosopher

Sincerity Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Positive Thinking Quotes - Mary Kay Ash

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“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.”Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001) U.S. founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Civilization - War Quotes - Will Rogers

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“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) U.S. comedian, humorist, and actor

Experience Quotes - Pete Seeger

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“Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't”Pete Seeger (b. 1919) U.S. folk singer and political activist

Hiring Firing Quotes - Tony O'Reilly

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“Show me a man who enjoys firing people and I'll show you a charlatan or sadist.”Tony O'Reilly (b. 1936) Irish chairman of Independent News & Media Group and C.E.O. of Heinz Company

Funny Advertising Quotes - Ogden Nash

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“Beneath this slabJohn Brown is stowedHe watched the adsAnd not the road.”Ogden Nash (1902 – 71) U.S. poet and humorist

Adversity Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.” [read business fable]William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Criticism Quotes - Eleanor Roosevelt

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) U.S. human rights activist, author, and first lady

Power - Information Quotes - Rostow

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“The new source of power is not money in the hands of the few, but information in the hands of many.”W. W. Rostow (1916 - 2003) U.S. economist and political theorist

Fight for Principles Quotes - Alfred Adler

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“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”Alfred Adler (1870 – 1937) Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist

Priorities Quotes - Shirley Conran

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“First things first, second things never.”Shirley Conran (b. 1932) British editor and writer

Procrastination Quotes - Wellington

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“My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.” [read business fable]Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1769 – 1852) British prime minister

Progress Quotes - George Santayana

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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”George Santayana (1863 – 1952) U.S. philosopher and novelist

Talent Quotes - Honore de Balzac

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“There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.”Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850) French novelist and playwright

Writing - Quotes - Samuel Johnson

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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”Samuel Johnson (1709 – 84) British poet and lexicographer

Humor Quotes - Robert Benchley

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“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945) U.S. humorist

Success Failure Quotes - Estee Lauder

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“Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.”Estée Lauder (1906 - 2004) U.S. co-founder of Estee Lauder Companies

Business Success Quote - Andrew Grove

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“I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.”Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) U.S. chairman of Intel Corporation and business author

Winning Strategy Quotes - Jack Daniels

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“Run with your head the first two thirds of a race and with your heart the final one third.”Jack Daniels (b. 1933) U.S. track coach

Consumer Quotes - Raoul Vaneigem

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“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934) Belgian writer and philosopher

Problem Solving Quotes - Harvey Jones

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“Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.” [read business fable]John Harvey-Jones (b. 1924) British management adviser and chairman of ICI

New Ideas Quotes - Mark McCormack

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“If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.” [read business fable]Mark McCormack (1930 – 2003) U.S. founder and chairman of the International Management Group

Age Quotes - Malcolm Forbes

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“By the time we've made it, we've had it.”Malcolm Forbes (1919 – 90) U.S. publisher of Forbes magazine

Life - Inspiration Quotes - William Osler

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“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.”William Osler (1849 – 1919) Canadian physician

Funny Faithfulness Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and are not.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Communication Quotes - Charlie Chaplin

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“Words are so futile, so feeble.”Charlie Chaplin (1889 – 1977) English actor and director

Competition Quotes - Larry Ellison

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“You can't win without being completely different. When everyone else says we are crazy, I say, gee we really must be on to something.”Larry D. Ellison (b. 1944) U.S. co-founder and C.E.O. of Oracle Corporation

Change - Friction Quotes - Saul Alinsky

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“Change means movement. Movement means friction.”Saul Alinsky (1909 – 72) U.S. activist

Empty Talk Quotes - Matthew Prior

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“And 'tis remarkable, that theyTalk most who have the least to say.”Matthew Prior (1664 – 1721) English poet and diplomat

Humor - Home Quotes - Robert Frost

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“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) U.S. poet

Experience Quotes - Oswald Avery

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“Whenever you fall, pick up something.”Oswald Theodore Avery (1877 – 1955) U.S. molecular biologist

Leadership Hype Quotes - Peter Drucker

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“Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century – Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.”Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005) U.S. management consultant and author

Happiest Man Quotes - Henry Miller

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“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) U.S. writer

Success Ambition Quotes - Longfellow

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“Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled by great ambitions.”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 82) U.S. poet

Ambition Quotes - John Keats

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“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”John Keats (1795 – 1821) British poet

Philanthropy Quotes - Martin Luther King

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“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Humiliation Quotes - Chin Ning Chu

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“Heroes are not judged for their prowess in hunting and shooting tigers, but rather for their strength and ability to endure the humiliation of being pigs.”Chin-Ning Chu (b. 1947) U.S. business consultant and author

Speech Time Quotes - Jenkin Jones

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“A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half-hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time – more than four days – which should be a hanging offense.”Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1843 – 1918) U.S. Unitarian minister

Liquor - Drinking Quotes - Ogden Nash

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“CandyIs dandyBut liquorIs quicker.”Ogden Nash (1902 – 71) U.S. poet and humorist

Union Workers Rights Quotes - AJ Cook

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“Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day.”A. J. Cook (1883 – 1931) British trade union leader

Risks Costs Quotes - John Kennedy

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“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”John F. Kennedy (1917 – 63) U.S. president

Double Misfortune Quotes - Josh Billings

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“Misfortunes and twins never come singly.”Josh Billings (1818 – 85) U.S. humorist and lecturer

Decision Quotes - Elias Canetti

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“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune.”Elias Canetti (1905 – 94) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Beauty Quotes - Katherine Anne Porter

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“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own—even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”Katherine Anne Porter (1890 – 1980) U.S. journalist and novelist

Moral Philosophy Quotes - Immanuel Kant

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“Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” ... (definition of the categorical imperative)Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) German philosopher

Science - God Quotes - Galileo Galilei

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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Italian astronomer and scientist

Life Choice Quotes - Anton Chekhov

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“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Famous Quotes - Anger - Aristotle

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“Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.”Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Faith Courage Quotes - Bertrand Russell

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“To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.”Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Art Music Quotes - Charlie Parker

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“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”Charlie Parker (1920 -55) U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer

Hero Death Quotes - Chief Aupumut

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“When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”Chief Aupumut (1725?) leader of the Mohican Native American tribe

Crisis Leadership Quote - Walter Bagehot

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“By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman – to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.”Walter Bagehot (1826 – 77) British economist and journalist

Famous Poverty Quotes - Bernard Shaw

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“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Funny Quotes - Women - Samuel Butler

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“I heard a man say that brigands demand your money or your life, whereas women require both.”Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

History Books Quotes - Anatole France

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“History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.”Anatole France (1844 – 1924) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Creativity Innovation Quotes - Levitt

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“Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things.”Theodore Levitt (1925 - 2006) U.S. economist, management theorist and editor

Woman Quotes - Katharine Graham

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“If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.”Katharine Graham (1917 – 2001) U.S. owner of Washington Post

Discrimination Quotes - CLR James

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“A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and privilege. But the woman is called career woman because her 'career'... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.”C. L. R. James (1901 – 89) Trinidadian socialist theorist, journalist, and writer

Nature Quotes - Robert Ingersoll

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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.”Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 – 99) U.S. social activist and orator

Evil Advertising Quotes - David Ogilvy

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“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.”David Ogilvy (1911 – 99) British founder and chairman of Ogilvy & Mather

Fashion Quotes - George Santayana

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“Fashion is something barbarous for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”George Santayana (1863 – 1952) U.S. philosopher and novelist

Writing Book Quotes - Winston Churchill

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“Writing a book was an adventure. To begin with it was a toy, an amusement; then it became a mistress, and then a master, and then a tyrant.”Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British prime minister

Sincerity Quotes - Tristan Bernard

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“Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.”Tristan Bernard (1866 – 1947) French novelist and playwright

Famous Quotes - Leaders - Warren Bennis

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“Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.” [read business-fable]Warren Bennis (b. 1925) U.S. lecturer and writer

Quotes of the Month (Apr 2007) - Britain & Diplomacy

Quotes of the Month (Britain & Diplomacy)Iran – Britain Dispute~ Iran wants an apology ... ~Alexander Pope: A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.Frank S. Nugent: Never apologize and never explain – it's a sign of weakness.~ While sailors await their fate ... ~Robert Browning: Oh, to be in

Mistakes Quotes - Alexander Pope

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“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.”Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) English poet

Diplomacy Quotes - Isaac Goldberg

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“Diplomacy is to do and sayThe nastiest thing in the nicest way.”Isaac Goldberg (1887 – 1938) U.S. critic

Easter Quotes - Edna Dean Proctor

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“I think of the garden after the rain;And hope to my heart comes singing,'At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,And the Easter bells be ringing!'”Edna Dean Proctor (1829 - 1923) U.S. poet
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