Some Men go Through a Forest and See No Firewood

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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. – Carl Ally

Never follow the crowd. – Bernard Baruch

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. – English proverb

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. – Aristotle Onasis

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago. – Bernice Fitz-Gibbons

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