Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Sam Cooke

“There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, But now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”. –Sam Cooke

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Konrad Zuse

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

Curtis Mayfield

“Don’t worry – if there’s a hell below, we all gonna go”. –Curtis Mayfield

Eazy-E

“Don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”. –Eazy-E

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

Fukuzawa Yukichi

“We do not have time to wait for the enlightenment of our neighbors so that we can work together toward the development of Asia. It is better for us to leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with civilized nations of the West… We should deal with them exactly as Westerners do”. –Fukuzawa Yukichi

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Walter Chrysler

“I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile”. –Walter Chrysler

Yves Saint Laurent

“Fashions fade, style is eternal”. –Yves Saint Laurent

Carl Karcher

“Whenever you’re successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product”. –Carl Karcher

Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”. –Peter Drucker

Duke Kahanamoku

“Don’t talk — keep it in your heart”. –Duke Kahanamoku

Michael Jackson

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

Thomas Edison

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”. –Thomas Edison

Tupac Shakur

“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

Benjamin Disraeli

“Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question”. –Benjamin Disraeli

William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”. –William Penn

Al Capone

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone”. –Al Capone

Diogenes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes

Harry S. Truman

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist; he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes”. –Harry S. Truman

Edwin Land

“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible”. –Edwin Land

Cornelius Vanderbilt

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

J. Paul Getty

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy”. –J. Paul Getty

Christopher Columbus

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

John Wanamaker

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness”. –John Wanamaker

Hedy Lamarr

“Its funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy”. –Hedy Lamarr

Robert Moog

“One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it’s so easy to make sounds, and put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it’s just as hard as it always was to make good music”. –Robert Moog

Edward Coke

“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times”. –Edward Coke

Alec Issigonis

“An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something”. –Alec Issigonis

James E. Casey

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it”. –James E. Casey

Paul Newman

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

Charles Kettering

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it”. –Charles Kettering

Herbert Hoover

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

PT Barnum

“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master”. –PT Barnum

George Washington Carver

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong; because someday in your life you will have been all of these”. –George Washington Carver

Howard Hughes

“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I’m a billionaire”. –Howard Hughes

John D. Rockefeller

“Charity is injurious, unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it”. –John D. Rockefeller

Nikola Tesla

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”. –Nikola Tesla