On Values

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."

Dorothy Parker

"His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."

William Shakespeare

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Warren Buffett

"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies."

Jon Stewart

"Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures."

Leviticus 19:36

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Groucho Marx

"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked."

Warren Buffett

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

Golda Meir

"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."

Jane Wagner

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers!"

Homer Simpson

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein