Beware of Enterprises that Require Clothes

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhaurer

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say “health care;” that’s an intention, not an objective. – Peter Drucker

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. – Cavett Robert

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult. – Chinese proverb

Beware of enterprises that require new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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To Give Up Enthusiasm Wrinkles the Soul

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The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want. – Earl Wilson

A man is not old till regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nobody grows old by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin; but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair – these are the long years that bow the heart and turn the greening spirit back to dust. – Anonymous

To retire is the beginning of death. – Pablo Casals

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. – Robert C. Sherriff

The Principle Difference Between a Dog and a Man

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It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler

You can fool al of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and that’s good enough. – Laurence J. Peter

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. – Mark Twain

In certain trying instances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Hyman G. Rickover

If man is a minority of one, we lock him up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who fears something gives it power over him. – Moorish proverb

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