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Lord Jeffrey Archer
F. Lee Bailey
Matthew W. Barrett
Benazir Bhutto
Dr. Kenneth Blanchard
Willy Brandt
Dr. Zbigniew Brezinski
William F. Buckley Jr.
Hon. James Callaghan
Jimmy Carter
Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien
Winston S. Churchill III
John E. Cleghorn
Walter Cronkite
Mario Cuomo
Gerald R. Ford
David Frost
Louis Gerstner
Gen. Alexander Haig
Hon. Edward Heath
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Larry King
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Prof. John Kotter
Robert MacNeil
President Nelson Mandela
Walter F. Mondale
Jean C. Monty
Akio Morita
Nicholas Negroponte
Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill
George Plimpton
Faith Popcorn
General Colin L. Powell
Gen. Yitzhak Rabin
Ronald W. Reagan
Angus Reid
Madame Jehan Sadat
Helmut Schmidt
Natan Sharansky
Commissioner David Stern
Dr. David Suzuki
Lester Thurow
Alvin Toffler
Caspar W. Weinberger

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

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GREAT QUOTATIONS


"I have the simplest tastes.  I am always satisfied with the best."

Oscar Wilde

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"It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible."

Evelyn Underhill

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"In victory one deserves champagne, in defeat one needs it."

Napoleon

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"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Dr. Henry Kissinger

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"Every business is going to become a knowledge-based business."

Stan Davis

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. 
It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit."

Somerset Maugham

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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

President John F. Kennedy

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"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

W. Somerset Maugham

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"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

Sir John Lubbock

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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

John F. Kennedy

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"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."

Diogenes Laertius

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"The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

Unknown

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"Believe you can and you're half way there."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."

Meg Whitman

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"Some see private enterprise as the predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked,
but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

Thomas Jefferson

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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be."

Groucho Marx

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"Don't be intimidated by the impossibility, be motivated by the possibility!"

Jacinta Goldsack

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"In times of change, learners inherit the earth"

Erich Fromm

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"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

Anon

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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open."

Alexander Graham Bell

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"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

W.B. Prescott

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"Learn from the mistakes of others.  You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler (author, futurist)

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"The customer is the only critic whose opinion matters at all."

Mark Twain

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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Samuel Johnson

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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Oscar Wilde

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"The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, 
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

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"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks."

Anonymous

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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot

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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

Mario Andretti

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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

William Shakespeare

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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."

Horace Walpole

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"The best training in the world doesn't make a difference if you
can't find the information you need."

Barbara Hemphill, Hemphill Productivity Institute

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"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

Benjamin Franklin

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"Have patience with all things, but first of all, have patience with yourself."

St. Francis De Sales

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"We don't confine ourselves to just one way of thinking our way out of a problem."

Takeshi Yoshida, Toyota

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"Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage."

Feargal Quinn, Chairman, Superquinn

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"If the organization is running correctly, the only decisions that get to my
desk are the ones with high uncertainty."

Jim Mullen, CEO, Biogen

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"Don't worry about stockholders or employees.  If you take care of your customers,
everything else will fall into place."

Lee Iacocca

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"Conservatism in business is the kiss of death."

Steven Berglas

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
It was here first."

Mark Twain

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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Unknown

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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward de Bono

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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

Gary Player

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"The best mirror is an old friend."

German Proverb

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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

William Somerset Maugham

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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

William Allen White

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"Never mistake motion for action."

Ernest Hemingway

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"I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper.
If you don't have any temper, you don't have any passion."

Michael Bloomberg

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"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers."

Mary Tyler Moore

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Anon.

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"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same time."

Gunter Grass

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"If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it."

James Goldsmith

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"If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

Dale Carnegie

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"When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person in the world."

Garman Wold

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"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected."

William Safire

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"God answers all the prayers. Sometime He answers "yes", sometimes
He answers "no", and sometimes the answer is "you gotta be kidding."

Jimmy Carter

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"Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day."

Goethe

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"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching.
And love like you've never been hurt."

Mark Twain

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"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

Chinese Proverb

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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who only have an interest."

John Stuart Mill

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

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"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."

Henry Ford

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"This is not the end.  It is not even the beginning of the end. 
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."

Thomas Edison

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"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Chinese Proverb

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"There is a time and a place for everything."

A. Barclay

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"What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?"

German Proverb

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"Look after your clients or your competitors will."

Unknown

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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."

Samuel Johnson

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King Jr.

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"You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know."

Seneca (4BC-65AD), Philosopher & Statesman

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"It is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses."

George Soros

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"In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want."

Alice Foote MacDougall

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"Price is what you pay.  Value is what you get."

Warren Buffet

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"We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face."

Roger Crawford

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"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

Anonymous

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"Do the right thing regardless of what others think."

Col. Eugene Bird

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"Joy shared is joy increased, grief shared is grief diminished."

Rabbi Earl Grollman

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"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

Aldous Huxley

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"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except
what you’re going to do now and do it."

William Durant

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"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

Yogi Berra

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"A great leader never sets himself above his followers - except in carrying responsibility."

Jules Ormond

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"Great leadership does not follow opinion polls, it molds opinion."

Rev. Jesse Jackson

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"Take calculated risks.  That is quite different from being rash."

George S. Patton

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"To thine own self, be true."

Shakespeare/Hamlet

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"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."

Yogi Berra

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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Aldous Huxley

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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."

Anonymous

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"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."

May V. Smith

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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi

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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Sir. Winston Churchill

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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibility,
while bad people will find a way around the laws."

Plato

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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable."

Seneca

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"The person who knows how, will always have a job. 
The person who knows why, will always be his boss."

Diane Ravitch

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"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men,
and men are great only if they are determined to be so."

Charles de Gaulle

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"Seldom does an individual exceed his or her own expectations."

Unknown

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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Henry Ford

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"The millennium won’t change anything. 
We’re the ones who have to make the choices for change."

Faith Popcorn

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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability."

Henry Ford

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"Your legacy will ultimately be a manifestation of the deepest and the
best that you had to give in life."

Robin Sharma

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"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

Frank Zappa

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"For those to whom much is given, much is required."

John F. Kennedy

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"We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Cause change and lead, accept change and survive, resist change and die."

Ray Norda

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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

Albert Einstein

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"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough
other people to get what they want."

Zig Ziglar

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