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Last modified: December 10, 2021“Talk is cheap. What you do is more important than what you say. It is the what you do that makes all the difference. Substance is what matters/counts.”
“Every person in the world benefits from American ingenuity, imagination, and innovation. All creativity, design, development, and technology has an American fingerprint on it.”
“You will achieve the greatest results in business and career if you drop the word achievement from your vocabulary and replace it with contribution. Contribution puts the focus where it should be–on your customers, employees, and shareholders.”–Peter Drucker
“The way we get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”–Walt Disney
“Nodding the head does not row the boat.”
“A person is rich or poor according to what he or she is and does, not according to what he or she has and says.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”–Albert Einstein
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”–Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”–Albert Einstein
“Imagination and innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”–Steve Jobs
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”–Thomas Paine
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”–Donald Trump
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.”–Arthur Schopenhauer
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”–Thomas Edison
“Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.”–Sam Walton
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”–Zig Ziglar
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”–Milton Friedman
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.”–Milton Friedman
“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”–Ronald Reagan
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”– Robert Frost
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”–David Ogilvy
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”–Thomas A. Edison
“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”–An Wang
“There is no substitute for hard work.”–Thomas A. Edison
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”–Les Brown
“When you always put problems off and never solve them or anything, the next problem or crisis is always just around the corner.”
“The Internet, like telephones, and other similar technology, grows more valuable as more join in.”–Robert Metcalfe
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”–Henry Ford
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”–B.C. Forbes
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”–Albert Einstein
“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”– David Ogilvy
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”–Benjamin Franklin
“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”– Benjamin Franklin
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”– Benjamin Franklin
“Time is money.”– Benjamin Franklin
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”–John Muir
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”–Pablo Picasso
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”–Henry Ford
“The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”–Margaret Thatcher
“Don’t allow someone else’s expectations to run your life.”–Mark Twain
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”–Bill Gates
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”–John Dewey
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.”–George Bernard Shaw
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”–John Dewey
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.”–George Bernard Shaw
“Common sense is not so common.”–Voltaire
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”–Plato
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”–Salvador Dali
“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”– Thomas Edison
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”– Thomas Edison
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, creed of ignorance and gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery.”–Winston Churchill
“A socialist is somebody who doesn’t have anything and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.”–George Bernard Shaw
“The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer; it’s by making poor people richer.”–Marco Rubio
“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”–Confucius
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”– Benjamin Franklin
“A strong dollar and a healthy, growing economy will benefit all Americans. A rising tide really does lift all boats.”
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”–Milton Friedman
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”–Albert Einstein
“All digital stuff, from PCs to chips to cell phones to music players, get twice as good every 18 to 24 months–at the same price point. And this digital stuff gets 30% to 40% cheaper every year–at the same performance point.”–Gordon Moore
“Cut taxes at the margin, on income and capital, and you’ll get more tax revenue, not less. Lower taxes will beckon risk capital out of hiding.”–Arthur Laffer
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”–Milton Friedman
“The economy and all individuals in it thrive when we are allowed to keep more of what we earn.”–Rand Paul
“Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.”–Robert Orben
“It’s not your salary that makes you rich; it’s your spending habits.”
“Socialism: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. If it implodes, it’s someone else’s problem.”–Margaret Thatcher
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”–Thomas A. Edison
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”–Dale Carnegie
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”–Peter Drucker
“You cannot print your way to prosperity, but you can pave the way to an economic collapse.”
“The Fed printing money is not a sign of economic ‘strength’ but of tremendous weakness.”
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”– William Arthur Ward
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” — Benjamin Franklin
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”–Sam Walton
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”– Henry Ford
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”–Benjamin Franklin
“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.”– Henry Ford
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”- Ronald Reagan
“Most economic fallacies–Socialism, Fascism, and Communism; assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”–Milton Friedman
“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.”–Milton Friedman
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”–George Bernard Shaw
“The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.”–Mitt Romney
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”– Henry Ford
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”– Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”– Albert Einstein