| Work and Winning "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." --Lily Tomlin "To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent." -- Anonymous "If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it." -- Charles F. Kettering "A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."-- Milton Berle "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." --Mahatma Gandhi "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." --Ashleigh Brilliant "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." --Italian Proverb Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity --Albert Einstein "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would bethat of an expert saying it can't be done." --Peter Ustinov "I find it rather easy to protray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." -- John Cleese "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." --James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." --Douglas Adams "To plow a straight row, one must keep his eye on the goal rather than the plow."--J.M. Price An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective." --Richard Briers "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery "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 "No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it." -- Thomas Jefferson "I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion." -- Clarence Darrow "Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without." -- Anonymous "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." --Francis Bacon "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." --Charles Mingus "Luck is largely a matter of paying attention." --Susan M. Dodd "Excellence is not being the best, it's doing your best." - Source Unknown "If you decide to go for it, do it with spirit: 'Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.'" --Charles Buxton "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. " �Benjamin Jowett "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." --Albert Einstein "To laugh often and love much...to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self...this is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue to next page |