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Think Polonius. But smarter. Tougher. Sometimes funnier.
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| Look out the window, not in the mirror. | ||||
| You only get one chance to make a first impression. | ||||
| Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. | Aaron Burr | |||
| The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, the chances are better that you've screwed up than that you've invented warp drive. | Akin's 19th Law | |||
| Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis. | Akin's Ninth Law | |||
| It's not that I am smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. | Albert Einstein | |||
| To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, then call whatever you hit the target. | Ashleigh Brilliant | |||
| The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity. | A. Edward Newton | |||
| Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. | Benjamin Disraeli | |||
| The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. | Benjamin Franklin | |||
| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | Bertrand Russell | |||
| The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. | Bertrand Russell | |||
| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. | Bill Cosby | |||
| The will to succeed is important, but the will to prepare is more important. | Bobby Knight | |||
| Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. | Calvin Coolidge | |||
| 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 | |||
| If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. | Catherine Aird | |||
| Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. | Charles Dickens | |||
| You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. | Charles F. Kettering | |||
| Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. | David Lloyd George | |||
| The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition. | Dwight Whitney Morrow | |||
| Rule 044: Never confuse wisdom with luck. | Ferengi Rules of Acquisition | |||
| Rule 208: Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer | Ferengi Rules of Acquisition | |||
| A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. | Gen. George Patton | |||
| Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. | Gen. George S. Patton | |||
| Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. | G. Harry Stine | |||
| When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. | Henry J. Kaiser | |||
| Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | Howard Aiken | |||
| You can always get more money, you can never get more time. | Jeff Levy | |||
| The only way to make money from university tech transfer is through gifts from grateful alumni. | Jeff Levy | |||
| Life is tough. Life is tougher if you're stupid. | John Wayne | |||
| The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. | Jon Hammond | |||
| Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk. | J. C. Penney | |||
| A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | J. Paul Getty | |||
| My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. | J.P. Getty | |||
| If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | |||
| To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. | Leonard Bernstein | |||
| Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. | Lois McMaster Bujold | |||
| Never, ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. | Lois McMaster Bujold | |||
| You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act. | Mahatma Gandhi | |||
| A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. | Malcolm X | |||
| A lack of consensus is no excuse for a lack of leadership. | Margaret Thatcher | |||
| Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. | Margaret Thatcher | |||
| If everything's under control, you're going too slow. | Mario Andretti | |||
| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. | Mark Twain | |||
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. | Mark Twain | |||
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. | Mark Twain | |||
| If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare. | Mark Twain | |||
| Perfect is the enemy of good, but better is the enemy of done. | Michael Mealling | |||
| If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. | Mo Udall | |||
| Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair. | Moss Kanter | |||
| Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. | Napoleon Bonaparte. | |||
| Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for... a Nobel [Prize] or a private jet. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |||
| Remember, if two people agree on everything, one of them isn't necessary. | Neal Boortz | |||
| The human race is divided into two classes--those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |||
| Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you. | Paul Williams | |||
| Always surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are. Then allow them to take the credit for successes, while you take the blame for their failures. | Pete Peterson | |||
| The best way to predict the future is to create it. | Peter Drucker | |||
| Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. | Ralph Charell | |||
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| It's good to have an open mind... but not so open that your brains fall out. | Rev. Kennedy Schultz | |||
| The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. | Richard Feynman | |||
| Hope is not a strategy. | Rick Page | |||
| Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Death is the lot of all of us and the only way the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all eternity. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| If Columbus had waited for decent ships we'd all still be in Europe. A man has to take some chances or he'll never get anywhere. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning--it's never free. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| That's the beauty of this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell'--what are the facts and to how many decimal places? | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Play, but cut the cards. | Ronald Reagan | |||
| Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. | Ronald Reagan | |||
| When we have strong values, decision making is easy. | Roy Disney | |||
| He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. | Samuel Johnson | |||
| We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating. | Samuel Johnson | |||
| Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for... those jobs don't get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever. | Seth Godin | |||
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| 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 | |||
| It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| The point is always to do something quickly, because if you don't, the other fellow will. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. | Theodore Roosevelt | |||
| Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. | Thomas A. Edison | |||
| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. | Thomas A. Edison | |||
| Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. | Thomas A. Edison | |||
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | Thomas A. Edison | |||
| There's a way to do it better. Find it. | Thomas A. Edison | |||
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| This should be a man's attitude: 'Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much.' | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | Thomas J. Watson | |||
| Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it. | Vaclav Havel | |||
| Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. | William Feather | |||
| A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | Winston Churchill | |||
| If you are going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. | Winston Churchill | |||
| You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. | Winston Churchill | |||
| Hire the people you trust, people who are passionate about their job, passionate about what they’re doing. Just leave them alone, and they’ll get the job done. | Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia apparel | |||
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