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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
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Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
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Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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Author: Martin Luther King Jr
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
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Author: Rupert Murdoch
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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Author: Pablo Picasso
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Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think. |
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Author: Dale Carnegie
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. |
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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. |
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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. |
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Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. |
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Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. |
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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. |
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Author: Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. |
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Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. |
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Author: H L Mencken
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. |
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Author: Bernard Baruch
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I made my money by selling too soon. |
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Author: Bernard Baruch
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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. |
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Author: Bernard Baruch
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. |
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Author: Bernard Baruch
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. |
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Author: Bernard Baruch
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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. |
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Author: Baha u llah
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder. |
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Author: Upton Sinclair
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. |
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Author: Upton Sinclair
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. |
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Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Barbossa For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You're in one. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Jack Me I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Jack You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Will Where's Elizabeth Jack She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Jack When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Will We're going to steal a ship That ship Jack Commandeer. We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Jacoby I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain. Elizabeth You like pain Try wearing a corset. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Jack You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you. |
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Author: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. |
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Author: H R Haldeman
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You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. |
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Author: H R Haldeman
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. |
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Author: H R Haldeman
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it. |
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Author: Andr Gide
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The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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Never give up on anybody. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. |
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Author: Hubert Humphrey
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it) but 'That's funny ...'. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. |
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Author: Isaac Asimov
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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. |
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Author: Hume Cronyn
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. |
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Author: David Broder
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. |
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Author: Anais Nin
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90 of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. |
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Author: William J O Neil
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. |
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Author: John Powell
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Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. |
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Author: John Powell
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Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Billy T-T-T-T-Today, Junior. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. |
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Author: Billy Madison
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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. |
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Author: Zadok Rabinwitz
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. |
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Author: James Halliwell
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. |
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Author: Josephus Daniels
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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The truth is more important than the facts. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen. |
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Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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