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Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on April 19, 2022

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”—Henry Ford, American industrialist, 1863-1947

Posted on April 6, 2022April 5, 2022

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”—Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister, 1874-1965

Posted on March 30, 2022March 29, 2022

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on March 20, 2022March 20, 2022

“It’s sexy to be competent.”—Letty Cottin Pogrebin, American feminist author, 1939-

Posted on February 14, 2022

“An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something.”—Alec Issigonis, British automobile designer, 1906-1988

Posted on February 7, 2022

“I was looking down at all that machinery and equipment and rockets and things under me, and I thought, ‘Just think—all that power was assembled by the lowest bidder.'”—Wally Schirra, American astronaut, 1923-2007

Posted on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”—Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist, 1869-1944

Posted on December 31, 2021

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

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