Pary Quotes

Friendship needs no words

it is solitude delivered

from the anguish

of loneliness.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up,

this diminishes fear;

knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The health of a democratic society may be

measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Diversification is protection against ignorance.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Don’t wait for someone else to take action;

report the truth,

even when it’s difficult.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason,

but of imagination.

If you’re long term oriented,

customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

If this is coffee,

please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

You see, God helps only

people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.

Get your facts first,

then you can distort them as you please.

People who are right a lot listen a lot,

and they change their mind a lot.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

My own view is that

every company requires a long term view.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like

free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish,

you can stay in the shallow water.

But if you want to catch the big fish,

you’ve got to go deeper.