The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

Henrietta Mears

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

Jack Dempsey

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

George W. Crane

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Robert Heller

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.

Ernest Hemingway

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections - that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It's hard to imagine this, so let's visualise each connection as a disc that's 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over.

Nessa Carey

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Michael Ondaatje

Riches have wings.

Proverb

Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

General Robert E. Lee