Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

This man was respectfully regarded as a management guru.

 

[drron]

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith.

 

[codash1099]

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

 

[drron]

‘That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.’
Aldous Huxley

 

[medhead]

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

- Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company

thanks.using this for a meeting next week.

 

[UP4014]

One I seem to be using a bit this year is classic Keating.

He is 'all tip and no iceberg'. I come across large numbers of experts who seem to know little.


Matt

 

[JessicaTam]

On the death of David Bowie: “If you’re sad today, just remember the world is over four billion years old … and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie”.

Simon Pegg

 

[JohnM]

Relevant to the goings-on in LOTFAP at present:

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

And another of his:

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Australia following fast, methinks...

 

[JohnM]

Should also have included this :

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Age and glasses of wine should never be counted, Italian proverb

 

[drron]

‘Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.’

Andy Grove

 

[Major]

The only time to eat diet food is while you are waiting for the steak to cook

Julia Child
Chef​

 

[TheRealTMA]

The only time to eat diet food is while you are waiting for the steak to cook

Julia Child
Chef​

there are three secrets to French food,
butter,
butter,
butter.

Julia Child.

 

[Major]

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows

Aristotle Onassis

 

[amaroo]

Being powerful is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren't

Margret Thatcher

 

[Foreigner]

“Do you want me to punch you to the floor to realise I am still there?”

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, 92, to a TV interviewer who asked him about his retirement and who might replace him.

“Why ‘successor’ when I am still there?”

“Why do you want a successor?”

 

[drron]

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup up their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy — then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor coughs down the tube for a nickel apiece.

Hunter S Thompson

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

On Anger:

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” — Benjamin Franklin

Credit to Futility Closet website

 

[Foreigner]

"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."


― Mark Twain

 

[amaroo]

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

W.H.Auden