Archived Quotes

Fashion is not about utility.

It is about joy.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader

and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are,

how much your contribution has been valued,

what massive potential you have and,

in recognition of all this,

would you mind having your salary halved.

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Blessed are the young,

for they shall inherit the national debt.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything

without losing your temper or your self confidence.

A man cannot be comfortable

without his own approval.

One good thing about music,

when it hits you,

you feel no pain.

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I’m tough because the world is tough.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I care not what others think of what I do,

but I care very much about what I think of what I do!

That is character!

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do

something you want done because he wants to do it.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power

has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Your technique is atrocious.

If you have one

true friend you

have more than

your share.

We have not invaded anyone.

We have not conquered anyone.

We have not grabbed their land,

their culture,

their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after the other

Walter Elliot

You're wasting my time.