The Small Man Thinks of Comfort

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There is a vast difference between understanding something well enough to buy it as opposed to understanding it well enough to sell it. - Zig Zigler

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. – Walter Mondale

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

A man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. – Niccolo Machiavelli

If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hand him. – Armand Jean du Plessis

The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. – Confucius

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The First Duddy in Life

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In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. – Bible

A man that cannot sit still – and cannot say no – is not fit for businss. –Samuel Pepys

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. – A. H. Weiler

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. – Publilius Syrus

It is much safer to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two. – Niccolo Machiavelli

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered. – Oscar Wilde

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