Great Throughts Treasury

"One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing."

"When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't."

"Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are."

"Honors are easier had than honor."

"To measure a man, measure his heart."

"The quality of life is in the mind, not is material."

"When you catch what you're after, it's gone."

""Money isn't everything," according to those who have it."

"Since you have to do things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do."

"Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them."

"Men who never get carried away should be."

"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it."

"If you have a job with no aggravations, you don’t have a job."

"To live in fear of losing is to lose the point of life."

"Sure things seldom are."

"Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time."

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

"Let your children go if you want to keep them."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

"Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do."

"To measure the man, measure his heart. "

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

"A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours."

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it."

"Contrary to the clich‚, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it."

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

"Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now."

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

"Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time."

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."

"Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody."

"I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing."

"Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems."

"I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e."

"How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard."

"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

"If you never budge, don't expect a push."

"If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere."

"If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose."

"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."