Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. – Saadi (1210-1291)

I have a terrific headline for you in the morning: ‘French Fries.’ – James French, last words before execution via electric chair, 1966

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read five-year projections. – Malcolm Forbes

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. – Dean Martin

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. – Humphrey Bogart, last words

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. – Wilson Mizner

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world. – Andrew Mellon

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Sir Winston Churchill

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. – Charles Du Bos

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. – Oscar Wilde

I don’t do favors; I accumulate debts. – Ancient Sicilian Motto

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H.L. Mencken

“I wished I’d had a diaper on.” – Patrick H. Wood III, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, on his reaction to a simulated attack by computer hackers on the US power grid.

I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. – Jack Benny

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. – Jaffar Hussein, Governor, Malaysian Central Bank

There are more fools among buyers than among sellers. – French Proverb

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. – Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. – Winston Churchill

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine

When it comes time to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. – Lenin

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. – Friedrich Nietzsche