From: Henry Cate Date: 12 Nov 86 09:59:18 PST (Wednesday) Subject: Life 1.C To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. -Ancient Chinese Warlord To me old age is 15 years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -Charles Baudelaire The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. -Walter Bilbey I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time. -Josh Billings Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -Ashleigh Brilliant Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne Top executives cannot afford to be isolated from the people below, who are in better touch with what is going on, and cannot afford to set unrealistic goals. -Charles Burck Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -James F. Byrnes You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. -Albert Camus Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. -A. J. Carlson Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. -Dale Carnegie The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. -Frank Crane Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't and those in cemeteries. -Everett Dirksen Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. -Charles G. Dawes Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -Thomas Dewar Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -Dandemis Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -Demosthenes The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. -Will Foley If something goes wrong, it is more important to talk about who is going to fix it, than who is to blame. -Francis J. Gable Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -- Barry Goldwater There are only 2 enterprises that refer to their customers as users, and one is illegal -Michael Hammer If it can't be understood, it's not finished yet. -Paul Herbig The secret to Hewlett-Packard's success is that we've simply got more bonfires burning at one time. -Bill Hewlett Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. -Edgar W. Howe I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible. -Edgar W. Howe If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good. -Kin Hubbard The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. -- Hubert Humphrey Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -O. W. Holmes If it can't be understood, it's not finished yet. -Paul Herbig If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager. -Bill Hewlett Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. -Oliver J. Hart If it can't be understood, it's not finished yet. -Paul Herbig There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. -Lee Iacocca There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. -Lee Iacocca Everything must be done immediately even if it doesn't have to be. -Larry Kane You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. -Henry Kaiser The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. -- Henry Kissinger Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested. -George Horace Lorimer What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -John Lubbock The more noise a motor or a man makes the less power is available. -W. R. McGeary The person who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI. -Wright Morris If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? -- Robert Moses When people cease to complain, they cease to think. -Napolean An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. -John H. Patterson In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. -Proverbs Those who obstinately oppose the most widely held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. -La Rochefoucauld The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. -George Bernard Shaw Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. -Cecile Stewart Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character. -Jonathan Swift Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. -Jean Toomer All you need in this life is ignorance and confindence, and then success is sure. -Mark Twain The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. -James Thurber Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -Leonardo da Vinci Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. -Witherspoon Isolation breeds conceit. -Charles Dudley Warner Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who receives, and thus, like mercey, is twice blessed. -Erastus Wiman