Business Wit & WisdomBeard Books, 2005 - 316 páginas Compendium of sayings, quips, and wise insights related to the business world. |
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... thing Adam had—when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.” This book is intended to serve two purposes. First, as a practical and useful reference work, it can be invaluable to public speakers, including the business ...
... thing Adam had—when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.” This book is intended to serve two purposes. First, as a practical and useful reference work, it can be invaluable to public speakers, including the business ...
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... 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 seldom knows what he can do until he tries 1.
... 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 seldom knows what he can do until he tries 1.
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... things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal . Prosperity makes friends ; adversity tries them . -E . Joseph Cossman -Publius Syrus ( fl . 1st century B.C. ) In prosperity , our friends know us ; in adversity , we know our ...
... things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal . Prosperity makes friends ; adversity tries them . -E . Joseph Cossman -Publius Syrus ( fl . 1st century B.C. ) In prosperity , our friends know us ; in adversity , we know our ...
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... thing is not color , but to accept God's final word on where your lips end . Beauty is not caused . It is . -Jerry Seinfeld -Emily Dickinson ( 1830–1886 ) examine his convictions , or to change them , which 14 Business Wit and Wisdom.
... thing is not color , but to accept God's final word on where your lips end . Beauty is not caused . It is . -Jerry Seinfeld -Emily Dickinson ( 1830–1886 ) examine his convictions , or to change them , which 14 Business Wit and Wisdom.
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... things before breakfast . —Lewis Carroll ( 1832–1898 ) Seek not to understand that you may believe , but believe that you may understand . —Saint Augustine ( A.D. 354–430 ) We are inclined to believe those we do not know , because they ...
... things before breakfast . —Lewis Carroll ( 1832–1898 ) Seek not to understand that you may believe , but believe that you may understand . —Saint Augustine ( A.D. 354–430 ) We are inclined to believe those we do not know , because they ...
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Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Ambrose Bierce asked believe Benjamin Franklin better Blaise Pascal Charles Christian church conscience courage Devil's Dictionary everything faith father feel fool Francois friends G.K. Chesterton Gandhi George Bernard Shaw give H.L. Mencken happiness human humor idea ignorance Johann Wolfgang John F Josh Billings keep Kennedy kids Kin Hubbard live look Lord man's Mark Twain Marriage married mind minister mistake moral mother Napoleon Bonaparte never Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Wilde person Peter politician Politics problem proverb Publius Syrus quip quote Ralph Waldo Emerson religion remember replied Robert Frost Rochefoucauld Rogers Roosevelt Samuel Johnson someone success talk tell There's thing thought truth virtue Voltaire walk wife William Winston Churchill wisdom wise Wolfgang Von Goethe woman women words wrong young
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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.