Quotes by Subject: Charlie's Favorite Quotes
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It's only words...unless they're true. | * | ||
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. | |||
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. | |||
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. | |||
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. | |||
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. | * | ||
If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes. | * | ||
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. | |||
The Gods have two ways of dealing harshly with us - the first is to deny us our dreams and the second is to grant them. | |||
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. | |||
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. | |||
'Tis is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. | * | ||
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. | * | ||
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. | |||
Where there is not vision, the people perish. | * | ||
Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them. | * | ||
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. | |||
Most business plans fail. Obviously, a success is not a realistic goal. But the people responsible for the most spectacular failures get promoted first because of their experience. | |||
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | |||
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. | |||
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years. | |||
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top. | * | ||
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. | |||
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. | * | ||
Advertising is the art of convincing people to pay money they don't have for something they don't need. | |||
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock. | * | ||
Of course I'm an optimist. What's the point of being anything else? | |||
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. | |||
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes than can be made in a very narrow field. | |||
Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved. | |||
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. | |||
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled subordinates, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. | |||
The public does not know what it wants, and there is no sure way of finding out until the idea is exposed under normal conditions of sale. If people could tell you in advance what they want, there would never have been a wheel, a lever, much less an automobile, airplane, or a TV set. | * | ||
A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter. | |||
Put all your eggs in one basket, and then pay very close attention to that basket. | |||
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. | |||
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin somebody else's dog around. | |||
Do not tell your problems to people: eighty percent do not care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. | |||
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. | * | ||
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | |||
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood, and probably themselves will not be realized. | |||
It is never too late to be what you might have been. | |||
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. | * | ||
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. | |||
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. | |||
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. | |||
Keep your eyes on the stars and feet on the ground. | * | ||
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | * | ||
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. | * | ||
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. | |||
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. | * | ||
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. | |||
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | |||
Clothes make the man. Nake people have no affect on society. | |||
When the eagles are silent, the parrots being to jabber. | * | ||
We must believe in luck. For how else do we explain the success of those we don't like? | * | ||
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. | |||
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. | |||
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. | * | ||
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. | |||
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. | |||
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never shall be. | * | ||
Golf is a good walk spoiled. | |||
A true friend stabs you in the front. | |||
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid. | * | ||
No wise man ever wished to be younger. | * | ||
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. | |||
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | * | ||
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? | * | ||
If I ever seem to take you for granted, forgive me. | * | ||
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. | * | ||
The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. | * | ||
The good cannot seize power, nor retain it; to do this men must love power. And the love of power is inconsistent with goodness; but quite consistent with the very opposite qualities: pride, cunning, cruelty. | * | ||
Causing the right amount of trouble is an art form. | * | ||
All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over. | * | ||
Race, like sex, is a subject on which it is near impossible to tell the truth. In each, desire, self-interest and self-image make the truth inconvenient to share not only with strangers (who may, legitimately or not, be viewed as opponents) but also with members of one’s own group, and, indeed, with oneself. | |||
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. | * | ||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
