Proverbs , quotes and sayings from the world over which appeal to me Call the pigs only if you have shit up your arse - Thanthanpal. Believe in Allah , but tie your camel. - Thanthanpal Work and life are like going to toilet. You got to go , you got to go . There are no excuses. - Thanthanpal I am big enough to contain contradictions within. After all the hot Sahara and the cold Antartic both form part of the same mother earth. - Thanthanpal Nothing fails like success , nothing succeeds like failure 'cause success has multiple fathers , failure is orphan. Most people think once or twice a year. By thinking once or twice a week I have made a fortune for myself. --G. B. Shaw Stopping me from living will not stop me from dying --Golden girls The world swings with the big buttocks. Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land - Shinsei Miyagawa The answer is important only if you ask the right question -Shinsei Miyagawa You do not put two turkeys together to make an Eagle . Frederic Sehrer ........................................................................... Think much , speak little , write less. Fire can be concealed , not smoke. Much better your enemies think you are crazy than reasonable and rational. Hunger changes bread into cake , beans into beefsteak. Opportunity makes the thief ; the thief who has no opportunity to steal considers himself an honest man. A pig with two masters soon starves . If you must hurt a man , do it so brutally you need not fear his revenge . Even a mouse keeps three holes. If you allow your enemies or friends to think they are your equals , they will immediately think they are your superiors . Promise little , deliver much . Do not get angry , get even. The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing . Better to cut the shoe than to pinch the foot. All who snore are not sleeping . Always draw the snake from its hole with another man's hand . Do not use both feet to test the depth of the river. God will provide , but you must provide till he does . If you do some dirty work yourself , make sure your assistants know about it . Make plans as complex as necessary but give simple orders . If you cannot win , make the price of your your enemy's victory exorbitant . Be civil to all , sociable to many , familiar with a few and friendly to a handful. He is a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom. A monkey in a tuxedo is still a monkey. The world lives on pretense. Once you make a decision do not tolerate any opposition whether by a young Turk or an old Turkey. Rather a donkey that carries than a horse that throws. In the fertile land of promises many have died of hunger . The fish is killed by its open mouth. You cannot put good edge on bad steel . If you do not ask for help , all men are good natured. No man is as fond of virtue as he is of women. There is always place at the top , but never enough to sit down . The wrong choice seems to be the more reasonable . For peace be ready for war. After a victory , sharpen your knife. Never tie a dog with the gut of a pig. ...........................................From The Mafia Manager The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. - John Henry Jowett There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feels great. - G. K. Chesterton If Necessity is the mother of invention, Discontent is the father of progress. - David Rockefeller It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. People of high intelligence talk about IDEAS People of average intelligence talk about THINGS People of no intelligence talk about OTHER PEOPLE! It's not how much it's worth, it's how much people think it's worth. When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience. Efficiency achieved at the expense of creativity is counterproductive. Don't equate activity with efficiency. There are two types of experts, and it's very important to be able to distinguish between them: There is the expert who can tell you what they think is going to happen, and there is the expert who can make something happen. It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't fire. Knowing when not to work hard is as important as knowing when to. work expands to fill the time available. When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. -Jules Renard He who wants to do everything will never do anything. -Andre Maurois Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. I simply tried to do the best each day, as each day came. -Abraham Lincoln Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -Henri Bergson Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one. -Benjamin Franklin You are bigger than the things that annoy you. -Jerry Bundsen An individual is as strong as his or her prejudice. Two things reduce prejudice- education and laughter. -Laurence J. Peter A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. -Mencius Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Take time to laugh- it is the music of the soul. Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection. There is always free cheese in a mousetrap. A stupid man stays awake all night pondering his problems; he's all worn out when morning comes, and whatever was, still is. -Viking proverb The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory. Instruction ends in the classroom, but education ends only with life. What we are is God's gift to us - what we become is our gift to God. Pygmies placed on giants' shoulders see more than the giants themselves. Sometimes silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice. "An eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa It is better to refuse a request with firmness & courtesy than to make a promise you can't keep. It is important that people know what you stand for; it is equally important that they know what you won't stand for. One of the qualities I would certainly look for in an executive is whether he knows how to delegate properly. The inability to do this, in my opinion, is one of the chief reasons executives fail. Another is their inability to make decisions effectively. These two personality lacks have contributed more to executive failure than any amount of know-how lacks. -- J.C.Penney An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. --Winston Churchill. Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them couldn't stand being laughed at.