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
Posted on November 4, 2021November 3, 2021 “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”—Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British author of “Parkinson’s Law,” 1909 to 1993
Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990
Posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021 “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”—Alan Kay, American computer graphics designer, 1940-
Posted on August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”—Bernard Baruch, American financier, 1870-1965
Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 “The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988
Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 “Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC
Posted on August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 “Success is an accident—well placed.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005
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