"First rate people hire first rate people; second rate people hire third rate people." Leo Rosten "I've got three birds and three dogs, and they don't lift a claw or a paw." Nancy Kamp Joseph Stalin "He was what us now known as 'people person.'" Simon Sebag Montefiore Standards "If you do not stand for something, you will stand for anything." Unknown "Never trust a man who allows bad beer to be served." Edward Marston, The Hawks of Delamere Staples "A staple here, a staple there, next thing you know we're talking paper clips." Wizard of Id Statistics "Effectiveness is not the result of measuring the numbers right; it is the result of measuring the right numbers." Dr. Flint McGlaughlin "For what were statistics but the ordering of a chaotic universe? Statistics were the leg-irons to be clapped on the thugs of ignorance and superstition which strangled Truth in lonely byways. Nothing was able to resist statistics, not even Death itself." J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamppost - for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang "Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off." Unknown "That's an astonishing figure - even though I made it up." Jon Stewart "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." Winston Churchill Storage "Even my fantasy world has run out of storage space." Cathy Guisewaite, Cathy "A life without stories would be no life at all." Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Stranger "We are shaped by the people we have never met." David McCullough Strategy "Get in touch with your inner lazy ass." John Carleton "Know your exit before you enter." Wade Cook "Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do." Savielly Tartakover "The strategic management task is to choose the correct option. ... The secret to a successful strategy becomes essentially listening to possibilities." Unknown Barbra Streisand "When was the last time Barbra Streisand cleaned out your garage?" Homer Simpson, The Simpsons Strength "If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help." John F. Kennedy "In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing." Steven Jobs Stress "Stress can't swim." American Standard ad Stuff "A nice object will never change the life of somebody, but it helps." Philippe Starck, product designer Stupidity "He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more." P. G. Wodehouse "How stupid can you get and still have toes work?" Dr. Laura Schlessinger "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr. "Stupidity won't kill you, but it'll sure make you sweat a lot." Haitian proverb "They never opened their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." Thomas Reed "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe." Albert Einstein "You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you." Frank Zappa Style "Avoid alliteration. Always." Susan Gonsalves "I am not a 'ruffle afionado'." Martha Stewart "I really cannot bear glass butter dishes." The Cazelets "Style consists almost entirely of details." Warren Christopher, editor "Styles change. Values don't." Working Assets ad "The tiger does not declare his tigritude before he pounces. He declares it in the elegance of his leap." Wole Soyinka "You can never be too slim or too powerful." Dell ad
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