Monday, October 31, 2016

Fortune Quote #1552

The idea that one gene encodes for one protein is a simplification. A
more accurate statement would be that one cistron encodes for one
polpeptide. A cistron is defined as the length of DNA that codes for a
polypeptide. -- An Evolution textbook

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Fortune Quote #1551

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Henry J.
Kaiser

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Fortune Quote #1550

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with
erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal

Friday, October 28, 2016

Fortune Quote #1549

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for
every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss
is away and you get twice as much done. -- Daniel B. Luten

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Fortune Quote #1548

"We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call
free enterprise," said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens show
enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best
to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself." --
Cameron Hawley

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Fortune Quote #1547

Bulls do not win bull fights; people do. People do not win people fights;
lawyers do. -- Norman Augustine

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Fortune Quote #1546

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They
seem more afraid of life than death. -- James F. Byrnes

Monday, October 24, 2016

Fortune Quote #1545

To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Fortune Quote #1544

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -- Elbert
Hubbard

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Fortune Quote #1543

There is one way to find out if a man is honest--ask him. If he
says "yes" you know he is crooked. -- Groucho Marx

Friday, October 21, 2016

Fortune Quote #1542

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it
reluctantly. -- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Fortune Quote #1541

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Fortune Quote #1540

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to
watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. -- T.H. White

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Fortune Quote #1539

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. --
Richard Bach, "Illusions"

Monday, October 17, 2016

Fortune Quote #1538

"The more nonsense you put up with, the more nonsense you are going to
get."

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Fortune Quote #1537

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the
number of participants. -- Adam Walinsky

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Fortune Quote #1536

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert
Heinlein

Friday, October 14, 2016

Fortune Quote #1535

The faster I go, the behinder I get. -- Lewis Carroll

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Fortune Quote #1534

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for
experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute
for intelligence. -- Lyman Bryson

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Fortune Quote #1533

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do
what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Fortune Quote #1532

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not
take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. --
Booth Tarkington

Monday, October 10, 2016

Fortune Quote #1531

Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Fortune Quote #1530

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more
time for dreaming. -- J. P. McEvoy

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Fortune Quote #1529

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a
camel--anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform
effectively under such difficult conditions. -- Laurence J. Peter,
presumably responding to the joke that a camel is a horse
designed by committee.

Friday, October 7, 2016

Fortune Quote #1528

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to
you. -- Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Fortune Quote #1527

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking
his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Lazarus Long (Robert
A. Heinlein)

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Fortune Quote #1526

Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Fortune Quote #1525

Men take only their needs into consideration--never their
abilities. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Monday, October 3, 2016

Fortune Quote #1524

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most
active. -- Leonardo da Vinci

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Fortune Quote #1523

Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters,
con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this
country was built. -- Hubert Allen

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Fortune Quote #1522

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David
Thoreau