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“And the Tyrians who lived in the city were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise, SELLING them to the people of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.” - Neh. 13;16 - Nehemiah - (c.443 B.C.E. - HOLY SCRIPTURES

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. – John Ruskin

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. – Benjamin Disraeli

Failure is assured by continually pushing on doors marked ‘pull.’ – Gary Pulliam

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. – Andy Rooney

Buy land—they’ve stopped making it. – Mark Twain

Never stand between a dog and a fire hydrant. – John Peers

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to. – Abigail Van Buren

Cheese—milk’s leap toward immortality. – Clifton Fadiman                     

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett

Nothing is impossible.  Some things are just less likely than others. – Jonathan Winters

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon

By and large, language is a tool for concealing truth. – George Carlin

The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us. – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing. – Plato

We spend our whole life selling other people ideas. – Art Linletter

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

Praise is like champagne—it should be served while it is still bubbling. – ROBIN’S READER

In general, my children refuse to eat anything that doesn’t dance on television. – Erma Bombeck   

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When all else fails, follow directions. – Great advice!

Different is not necessarily better, but better is always different. – Hugh Landrum

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“Your skillful trading brought you great WEALTH, And your heart grew haughty because of your wealth.” - Ezek. 28:5 - Prophet Ezekiel - HOLY SCRIPTURES

There are two ways to slide easily through life—to believe everything, or to doubt everything.  Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski                

You go to your TV to turn your brain off.  You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs

Mistakes are a fact of life—it’s the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

If you steal an idea, you’re a thief—if you steel many, it’s research – Anonymous?  (Maybe it comes from suspicion against writers plagiarizing the work of others.)

Somehow, I just don’t trust advertisements that say, “People just like you.”  There is no one just like me. – Gary Pulliam 

I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943

Easy doesn’t do it. – Al Bernstein                                                                  

Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it. – (Coach) Lou Holtz

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese proverb                          

One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. – Andy Rooney                                                                              

One thing to remember—no one can teach you when to close.  You learn to close by doing it too early or too often. – Karl Bach                                            

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                               

Do, or do not. There is no try. – Yoda                                                             

The closest to perfection we get is when we fill out a job resume. - Unknown    

The only way to control how you are seen by other people is by being honest all the time. – Tom Hanks

People are too lazy to dig for worms even when they’re unemployed.  No one has raised the standard of living more that the professional salesman. – Paul Harvey

Every tub sits on its own bottom. – Zig Zigler                  

Things turn out best for those who make the best out of the way things turn out. – Art Linkletter

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You never get a second chance to make a first impression. – A universal truth

Goals are targets in life to continually shoot for. – Dennis Waitley

Defenders never gain new ground. – Ira Hayes

Enthusiasm is the act of getting in bed before the room gets dark after flipping off the light switch. – Someone smart

After eating an entire BULL, a mountain lion felt so good he started roarin.’ He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.  The moral:  When you know you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut. – Will Rogers

Running water purifies itself—stagnant water becomes distilled poison. – Gary Pulliam

Success means controlling your own time.  If you gain control over 60% of the time in your life, you are really successful.  Time is the most expensive currency, but once you spend it, it’s gone. – Rod Steiger

Crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind. – Dennis Waitley

Motivation—In an experiment, bees were taken into outer space.  Because of weightlessness, they saw no need to fly.  They all died! – Paul Harvey

The information explosion has changed people’s perception of wealth.  We originally said that land was wealth.  Then we thought it was industrial production.  Now we realize it’s intellectual capital.  The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important than money.  This is a major change in the way the world works.  The same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial revolution is now happening to people now in industry as we move into the information age. – Walter Wriston, former CEO of Citicorp

It’s not the HOURS in your work that counts—it’s the WORK in your hours. – Sam Ewing

There are two kinds of people—those who do all the work, and those who take the credit.  Try to be in the first group—there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

Ambition is a path to success.  Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. – B. Eardley

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duel, retiring commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899. 

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I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success than a hundred per cent of nothing. – Unknown   

Life is a matter of salesmanship. – Thomas J. Watson

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. – Fred Allen