The Univesal Innate Desire of all Organisms to live Beyond Income

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That’s the old American way – if you get a good thing, then overdo it. – Phil Walden

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are already going. – John Naisbitt

When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters. – Milton S. Gould

In attacking, unless you have a three-to-one advantage – and even if you do – go around the side. – Robert Heller

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. – Peter Borden

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on by my fingernails. – Barbara Aronstein Black

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We're Drowning in Information and Starving for Knowledge

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It would be a great mistake to confine your imagination to the way things have always been done. In fact it would consign you to the mediocrity of the marketplace. – Harold Geneen

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. – Woodrow Wilson

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan

Intuition becomes increasing valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -–Rutherford D. Rogers

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. – Oscar Wilde

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Jargon - the Modern Gorgan

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There may be two class of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not. – Robert Benchley

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Teleconferencing is so rational, it will never succeed. – John Naisbitt

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. – william shakespeare

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. – Sam Rayburn

American society is composed of an intricate web of institutional affiliations so inclusive that, it has been alleged, anyone in the United States can be found by making seven phone calls. – Woodrow H. Sears, Jr.

Technology – the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. – William A. Ward

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It's Possible to Own Too Much

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word. – Al Capone

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin

It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. – Lee Sagall

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. – Abraham Lincoln

Every organization has a Siberia. – Warren G. Bennis

The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only davise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt