Daily Quotes

[OllyBond]

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
–Condorcet

[cigcars]

   "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill every time"

[GrouchoMarx]

There are two kinds of problem drinkers - Those that drink too much, and those that drink too little.

- Winston Churchill

[OllyBond]

“I remember Dawson (No Horse) said, “Once you say your prayers, don’t worry about them. If you worry about them, they’ll just fade away.”
–Chuck Ross, LAKOTA

[OllyBond]

Remember your good memories, but live for today and keep the memories behind you.
—Jodi K. Elliott

[RupertPupkin]

“Just win baby!”

-Al Davis

[El Presidente]

Whatever you are reading, whatever you are listening to.....if it causes a chuckle, lifts an eyebrow or makes causes you to stop an prop.....post it up 

[Ritch]

The Job Lot an obscure British Comedy set around the West Midlands where I live. Available on Netflix...

[El Presidente]

I have a mate out in Los angeles who is one of the best marketing minds that I know.  He put me onto an article " The Death of Don Draper" 

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2018/07/death-don-draper

From that I gleaned the following gem 

 

“One reason I’m not predicting the death of advertising any time soon is that you can see how important it is in nature. A flower is basically a weed with an advertising budget.” 

[Kitchen]

I was once writing an estimate out for a project and was wondering how much of a profit margin I could add on where I could still have it accepted.  The project was pretty much mine to loose, as they say, and I was being kind of greedy in writing it out.  

I asked a mentor of mine what he thought, to which he replied, "pigs get feed, hogs get slaughtered!"  

[canadianbeaver]

Four years Art College. Eight years graphic designer at top design firms in Toronto. I cross the line and become an Account Director.

The company boss explains to me:

”Sales is sales, the rest is romance”.

CB

[ponfed]

My late uncle wasn't the most optimist kinda person. 

One thing he always said, even when a was a wee lad, always stuck with me:

"Life is like shit on a toast. With each bite, you get less bread."

(Might have been more resonnant in the original Quebecois, but I think it still holds.)

[PigFish]

...similar to my saying about squirrels. Just a rat with a PR firm!

[joeypots]

I forget exactly when, sometime soon after I was out of college, I’m in the car with my old man. He says.

“The world is full of bull shit artists.”

[Ryan]

I tried to settle an argument with my wife over the weekend with, "Oh yeah, well I'm on my period too!"

It is one of my own quotes, but it made me (and my wife) laugh.

 

[Fuzz]

"Trust only those who like big butts... for they cannot lie"

[TBird55]

"Some days chicken salad, some days chicken sh$t".

 

[bmf30180]

'Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear'.  My daily advice for my 13 year old son.

[Hookmaker]

Saturday evening here was "remembrance" night of the 2008 Wall Street <moderated>. Watched a bunch of documentaries and I like this quote in particular:

"A real engineer builds bridges. A financial engineer builds dreams. When these turn into nightmares you and I get hurt"

Goes without saying that the first people I'd fire once I got to the top was: Economists ? - sorry guys.

Edited September 17, 2018 by Fuzz
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[skalls]

"I'd rather be lucky than good"

My uncle.

"It is what it is"

My dad.  Though to be fair I don't think either one of them coined those phrases

[Cep]

East is east and west is west, but an elephant never forgets.... 

Words to live by

 

 

 

 

[zeedubbya]

My father always says,

“Be happy with what you have, and not unhappy with what you don’t have.”  

And

“I’ve found I always had more luck when I was working hard.”  

I’ve seen the luck one argued about if Thomas Jefferson said it or not, and I think the first one is a variant of a Proverb.  

[joeypots]

"There is no such thing as luck. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Vince Lombardi, and I don't think it's always true.

"Money is like manure. Leave it in a big pile and it stinks to high heaven. Spread it around and it makes everything grow." Don't know who said this one.

"Never put off until tomorrow that which can be put off until the day after tomorrow." Me

 

[TBird55]

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. If you find that you can't hold on, look for a soft place to land. 

[Kierkegaard]

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection...."
-Lawrence Durrell

"Two things spread quickly: gossip and a forest fire”—Cypriot proverb.

Both are from the same book, "Bitter Lemons" (of Cyprus) by Durrell


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