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“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”
Henry Ford
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
Heraclitus
“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
Steve Jobs
“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”
Steve Jobs
“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
Steve Jobs
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
Steve Jobs
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
Steve Jobs
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
Albert Einstein
“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
Mark Twain
“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
Mark Twain
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
Mark Twain
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
Mark Twain
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”
Lao Tzu
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.”
Frank Herbert
“Walking is man's best medicine.”
Hippocrates
“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”
Robin Williams
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
Ray Bradbury
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
Agatha Christie
“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.”
Agatha Christie
“In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.”
Gore Vidal
“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
Charles Dickens
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Jane Austen
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
Dalai Lama
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
Dalai Lama
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
Thomas Jefferson
