It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.
— Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968)

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. – African Proverb

“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” ~ Henry Ford

If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?

Nothing makes a man quite so frugal as an empty wallet

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
— Norman Cousins

“Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.”
— Peggy Joyce

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.

JC Penney

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill