You'll have noticed that we like quoting other people.
Some inspire us.
Some represent what we're trying to achieve.
And other just make us smile.
Here are a few of our favourites.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan
"Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain
"Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef."
Andy Rooney
"Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
Will Rogers
"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
Benjamin Jowett
"Income tax … where the ordinary principles of commercial accounting are not invaded by statute they must be allowed to prevail."
the Lord President of the Court of Session, 1926
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
Robert Burns
"Investing is simple, but not easy."
Warren Buffet
"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
Margaret Mitchell
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."
John Updike
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
"We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves."
Adlai Stevenson
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
Pearl S Buck
"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband."
H L Mencken
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
Carl Bard
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Mae West
"A rockpile ceases to be a rockpile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
Rodney Dangerfield
"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."
Winston Churchill
"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
Alan Greenspan
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does"
J M Barrie
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
Tom Brokaw
"Find a need and fill it"
Ruth Stafford Peale
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
George Burns
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
Robert Orben
"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
Fran Lebowitz
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
Henry Kissinger
"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name."
Paula Poundstone
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
Albert Einstein
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
Thomas A. Edison
"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."
Anon
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."
Leo Rosten
"Men who never get carried away should be."
Malcolm Forbes
"The simplification of anything is always sensational."
GK Chesterton
"I not only use all of the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson
"You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
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