"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits."

Stengel, Casey on baseball
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"Somebody left the cork out of my lunch."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book."

Madonna on sex
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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

Byrne, Robert on politics
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"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now."

Prince, Ray on want
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"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."

Butler, Samuel on history and historians
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Bourget, Paul on love
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"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

Landers, Ann on speakers and speaking
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"Manana is often the busiest day of the week."

Proverb, Spanish on procrastination
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"I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom."

Barrymore, John on marriage   

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed"

Drucker, Peter F. on time
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"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."

Jong, Erica on blame
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"Eureka! I've got it."

Archimedes on ideas
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"Make a customer, not a sale."

Barchetti, Katherine on customers
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"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

Half, Robert on time
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best."

Robinson, James H. on excellence
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

Dali, Salvador on contentment
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"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness
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"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."

Nixon, Richard M. on president   

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Ruskin, John on weather
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on health
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight."

DeFrantz, Anita on goals
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