In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
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Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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