Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. - Paris Hilton
Politicians are like football managers - bright enough to understand the rules, but not clever enough to realise that it doesn't matter
It's what we call Welsh Alzheimers- you can't remember anything except when Wales won the Rugby Grand Slam.
"Don't create a business, create a cause - enlist people in adventures towards excellence" Tom Peters
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God gave you 2 eyes, 2 ears and 1 mouth - they should be used in that proportion - Archbishop Sentamu
Being powerful is like being a lady - if you have to tell people you are, then you aren't - Margaret Thatcher
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened - Winston Churchill
Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments take your breath away - from film Hitch
Evolution has 3 phases ; Survival, Enquiry & Sophistication - called the How, Why, Where phases. How can we eat, Why do we eat, Where shall we have lunch. - HitchHikersGuide
"If we are going to base the decision to be based on opinion, I'd rather it was based on mine" Jack Welch
Excellence can be attained if you:
o Care more than others think is wise
o Risk more than others think is safe
o Dream more than others think is practical, and
o Expect more than others think is possible.
Michael E Fairey - President of BQF & Deputy Group Chief Executive LloydsTSB
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most responsive to change." Charles Robert Darwin
A nice arse and great legs won't get you through life. By the time you're 30 you need to get a personality - from film "Be Cool"
We confess to small faults, to persuade people that we have no large ones - Francios de La Rochefoucauld
When a man opens the door for a his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife - The Duke of Edinburgh
Cynics regard everyone as corrupt. Idealists regard everyone as corrupt, except themselves - Robert Anton Wilson
Wisdom is the reward you receive for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather be talking - Aristotle
When I picked up your book I was so convulsed with laughter with laughter what I had to put it down, but one day I intend to read it - Groucho Marx
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell
Everyone complains about the way they look, but no one complains about their brain - Old Jewish saying
Will all those who said it can't be done, please get out of the way of those of us who are actually doing it.
Winners attract winners. If you want to hang with winners then you need to look, feel and act like a winner.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, it's a thing to achieve.
"Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Winston Churchill
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not prepared to do. Successful people constantly live outside their comfort zone.
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their field." Vince Lombardi
"The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a man's determination." Tommy Lasorda
"Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection." Soichiro Honda
"What is the essential element any successful leader must have ? It can be reduced to one rather simple word: caring." Sir Colin Marshall
"You don't get any marks for trying; you must succeed. I'm not interested in sophisticated reasons for failure." Sir Allen Sheppard
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. You must toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back." Simms
"Unless you do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." Ronald E Osborn
"Having left school without going to university, I decided to make money. I never really considered failure." Richard Branson
"The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them." P D Ouspensky
"There are a lot of risks and costs to a programme of action but they are far less than the risks and costs of inaction." John F Kennedy
"I cannot give you the formula for success; but I can give you the formula for failure; try to please everybody." Herbert Bayard Swope
"It is not the employer who pays the wages - he only handles the wages. It is the product that pays the wages." Henry Ford
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." Henry C Link
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe
"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week." General George Patton
"When you get right down to the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means 'to follow through'." F. W. Nichol
"The difference between success and failure is doing a thing nearly right, and doing a thing exactly right." Edward Simmons
"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." Dickk Vermeil
"Here lies a man who knew how to enlist into his services people better than himself." A. Carnegie's epitaph
Commerce is idea and choice expressed. Look about you this moment: everything you see and touch was once invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being.
We generate our own environment - we get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life we have created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit but us? Who can change it any time we wish but us?
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory.
We can have excuses or we can have health, love, logevity, understanding, adventure, money, happiness. We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.
An easy life doesn’t teach us anything, in the end its the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us, NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us
With all that needs to be achieved in the months ahead, I’d appreciate that all those who said that it cannot be done could get out of the way and not distract those who are doing it.
"Autobiography: It is hard to be nostalgic about the last 40 years when you hope that the best is still to come"
"In the words of the famous Roman senator in 42BC “Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni” - Beam me up, Scotty."
“It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” said the Queen from Alice in Wonderland
Time – best kept secret of the rich. Everybody has 24 hours a day, so how come some are worth $100m and some are worth $100
A $10 bottle of wine is better than a $10 bottle – BUT NOT TWICE AS GOOD (and this applies right up the price scale)
"The definition of success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm", Winston Churchill
"It is not enough for me to succeed, but that my friends are seen to have failed" Anon - probably an investment banker
"The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity", George Bernard Shaw
