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• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. -Warren Buffett

• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. Will Rogers

• Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. Lee Iacocca

• A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. Henry Ford

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett

• A fool and his money are soon elected. Will Rogers

• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett

• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. Will Rogers

• Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Lee Iacocca

• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. Warren Buffett

• A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. Will Rogers

• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. Lee Iacocca

• A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. Henry Ford

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• I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. Warren Buffett

• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. Will Rogers

• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. Lee Iacocca

• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford

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• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Warren Buffett

• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. Will Rogers

• I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. Lee Iacocca

• Any colour - so long as it's black. Henry Ford

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Warren Buffett

• Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. Will Rogers

• I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. Lee Iacocca

• 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

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• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. Warren Buffett

• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers

• I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca

• As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. Henry Ford

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett

• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. Will Rogers

• If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent. Lee Iacocca

• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford

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• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett

• America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. Will Rogers

• If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. Lee Iacocca

• Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. Henry Ford

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Warren Buffett

• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. Will Rogers

• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca

• Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett

• An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. Will Rogers

• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two. Lee Iacocca

• Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford

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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. Warren Buffett

• An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers

• In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. Lee Iacocca

• Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. Henry Ford

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• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. Warren Buffett

• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. Will Rogers

• Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca

• Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. Henry Ford

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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. Warren Buffett

• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? Will Rogers

• 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. Lee Iacocca

• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Henry Ford

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• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Warren Buffett

• And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke! Will Rogers

• My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca

• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. Warren Buffett

• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. Will Rogers

• 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? Lee Iacocca

• Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. Henry Ford

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. Warren Buffett

• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. Will Rogers

• One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. Lee Iacocca

• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

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• Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett

• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers

• People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. Lee Iacocca

• History is more or less bunk. Henry Ford

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• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Warren Buffett

• Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. Will Rogers

• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca

• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. Henry Ford

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. Warren Buffett

• Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Will Rogers

• Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. Lee Iacocca

• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. Henry Ford

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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. Warren Buffett

• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. Will Rogers

• Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. Lee Iacocca

• I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. Henry Ford

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett

• Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans. Will Rogers

• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. Lee Iacocca

• I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. Warren Buffett

• Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers

• The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. Lee Iacocca

• If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Warren Buffett

• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers

• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Lee Iacocca

• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. Warren Buffett

• Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. Will Rogers

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. Lee Iacocca

• If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. Henry Ford

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. Warren Buffett

• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers

• The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. Lee Iacocca

• If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Warren Buffett

• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers

• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. Lee Iacocca

• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. Warren Buffett

• Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

• The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. Lee Iacocca

• It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. Henry Ford

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' Warren Buffett

• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

• The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Lee Iacocca

• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford

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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Warren Buffett

• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else. Will Rogers

• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. Lee Iacocca

• Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. Henry Ford

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• When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Warren Buffett

• Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. Will Rogers

• The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. Lee Iacocca

• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. Henry Ford

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful". Warren Buffett

• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers

• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. Lee Iacocca

• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford

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• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. Warren Buffett

• I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." Will Rogers

• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. Lee Iacocca

• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. Warren Buffett

• I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers

• Trouble shared is trouble halved. Lee Iacocca

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett

• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. Will Rogers

• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca

• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford

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• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. Warren Buffett

• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. Will Rogers

• We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back. Lee Iacocca

• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford

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• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker

• I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. Will Rogers

• We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? Lee Iacocca

• Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. Henry Ford

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• Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Peter Drucker

• I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times. Will Rogers

• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca

• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Henry Ford

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• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. Will Rogers

• If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. Will Rogers

• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. Henry Ford

• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford

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• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. Will Rogers

• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? Will Rogers

• There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. Henry Ford

• There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured. Henry Ford

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. Will Rogers

• If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. Will Rogers

• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

• There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford

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• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. Warren Buffett

• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Will Rogers

• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca

• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford

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• If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. Will Rogers

• If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. Will Rogers

• There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. Henry Ford

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford

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• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. Will Rogers

• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. Will Rogers

• Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. Henry Ford

• We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. Henry Ford

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• In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. Will Rogers

• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. Will Rogers

• Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford

• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. Henry Ford

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• Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers

• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't

so. Will Rogers

• Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. Henry Ford

• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

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• It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. Will Rogers

• It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government

working for you. Will Rogers

• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford • You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Henry Ford

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• Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Will Rogers

• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. Will Rogers

• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. Will Rogers

• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers

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• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. Will Rogers

• Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. Will Rogers

• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. Will Rogers

• One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. Will Rogers

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• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. Will Rogers

• People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. Will Rogers

• The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. Will Rogers

• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Will Rogers

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• The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?" Will Rogers

• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Will Rogers

• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers

• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers

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• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. Will Rogers

• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. Will Rogers

•Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. Will Rogers

• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. Will Rogers

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• It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers

• It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. Will Rogers

• You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. Henry Ford

• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker

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Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership

• 1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self centered.• Love them anyway.• 2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.• Do good anyway.• 3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.• Succeed anyway.• 4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.• Do good anyway.• 5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.• Be honest and frank anyway.• 6. The biggest men with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest• men with the smallest minds.• Think big anyway.• 7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.• Fight for a few underdogs.• 8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.• Build anyway.• 9. People really need help, but may attack you if you help them.• Help them anyway.• 10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.• Give the world the best you have anyway.


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