Showing posts with label Eric Hoffer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Hoffer. Show all posts

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Discover What Your Enemy Fears Most

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

Competition, you know, is a lot like chastity. It is widely praised, but alas, too little practiced. – Carol Tucker

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. – Arabic proverb

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. – Eric Hoffer

The race may not be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that’s how you bet. – Damon Runyon

Don’t wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it. – anonymous



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Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Weak Man's Imitation of Strength

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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen on occasion to change. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer

If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He’s a little man with much to be modest about. – Winston Churchill

Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humor. – Steve Allen

They say a reasonable number of fleas is good fer a dog – keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog. – E.N. Westcott

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. – Pope John XXIII


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Friday, January 22, 2010

Men are like Nails

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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. – C.D. Jackson

Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther. – anonymous

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. – Nicholas M. Butler

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. – Walter Savage Landor

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. – Eric Hoffer

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain



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