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The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

If you want understanding try giving some.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

The art of conversation lies in listening

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

There's no way to move without making waves.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

It is never too late to learn.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Old age is not for sissies.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Men who never get carried away should be.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

The best vision is insight.

People who can't see without glasses should wear them.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

It's never too late to learn.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

I make more money selling advice than following it

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.