Modern Day Quotes

Genius is 1 percent inspiration,
99 percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
But to schedule your priorities.
-Stephen Covey

Whether you think you can or think you can't,
You're right.
-Henry Ford

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
-Abraham Lincoln

Formula for success:
Rise early, work hard,
Strike oil.
-J. Paul Getty

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men,
two of whom are absent.
-Robert Copeland

A committee is a group that keeps minutes
and loses hours.
-Milton Berle

Prosperity is a great teacher;
Adversity a greater.
-William Hazlitt

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you,
But those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
-Napoleon Bonapart

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
-Bill Clinton

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
-Winston Churchill

Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it, then tell them what you've said.
-Dale Carnegie

People can have the Model T in any color-
So long as it's black.
-Henry Ford

The best car safety device is a rearview mirror
with a cop in it.
-Dudley Moore

To err is human-
and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
-Robert Orben

To err is human,
but to really foul things up you need a computer.
-Paul Ehrlich

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the internet, we know that is not true.
-Robert Wilensky

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world
that we don't have to experience it.
-Max Frisch

The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.
-Alan Kay

She got her looks from her father.
He's a plastic surgeon.
-Groucho Marx

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