Business Wit & WisdomBeard Books, 2005 - 316 páginas Compendium of sayings, quips, and wise insights related to the business world. |
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... Abraham Lincoln ) versus modern politician , etc. In the case of historic versus modern , it is certainly not necessary to try to find a specific modern political quote to draw your contrast , even if a quote was used for the historical ...
... Abraham Lincoln ) versus modern politician , etc. In the case of historic versus modern , it is certainly not necessary to try to find a specific modern political quote to draw your contrast , even if a quote was used for the historical ...
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... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) Most of us will never do great things , but we can do small things in a great way . Those who have done nothing are usually sure nothing can be done . Action is the antidote to despair . —Joan Baez Man ...
... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) Most of us will never do great things , but we can do small things in a great way . Those who have done nothing are usually sure nothing can be done . Action is the antidote to despair . —Joan Baez Man ...
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... of life are intended to make us better , not bitter . A certain amount of opposition is a help , not a hindrance . Kites rise against the ... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) He knows not his own strength that hath not met 3 RICHARD S. ZERA.
... of life are intended to make us better , not bitter . A certain amount of opposition is a help , not a hindrance . Kites rise against the ... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) He knows not his own strength that hath not met 3 RICHARD S. ZERA.
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... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words . A recent Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage ... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) Recipe for good speeches : add shortening . Brevity is not only the soul of wit , but the ...
... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words . A recent Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage ... Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) Recipe for good speeches : add shortening . Brevity is not only the soul of wit , but the ...
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... of funny things passed in one session of congress . —Will Rogers I have been told I was on the road to hell , but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it . —Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) This country has come to ...
... of funny things passed in one session of congress . —Will Rogers I have been told I was on the road to hell , but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it . —Abraham Lincoln ( 1809–1865 ) This country has come to ...
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Página 196 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here ?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where ' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,
Página 191 - Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Página 254 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Página 220 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Página 75 - We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well ; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
Página 129 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 256 - I hear, and I forget; I see, and I remember; I do, and I understand.
Página 210 - The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread'.
Página 95 - Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. "That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much.