Quotes

“Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.” Bo Bennett

“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.” Bo Bennett

“There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.” Bo Bennett

“To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.” Bo Bennett

“Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?” Bo Bennett

“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.” Charles Bukowski

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.” Charles Bukowski

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” Charles Bukowski

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.” Charles Bukowski

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” Charles Bukowski

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.” Charles Bukowski

“It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.” Charles Bukowski

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.” Charles Bukowski

“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.” Charles Bukowski

“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.” Charles Bukowski

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” Charles Bukowski

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.” Charles Bukowski

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.” Charles Bukowski

“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.” Charles Bukowski

“Never get out of bed before noon.” Charles Bukowski

“Humanity, you never had it to begin with.” Charles Bukowski

“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.” Charles Bukowski

“Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.” Charles Bukowski

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” John Burroughs

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” John Burroughs

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” John Burroughs

“Leap, and the net will appear.” John Burroughs

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” John Burroughs

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.” John Burroughs

“The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.” John Burroughs