#lou

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#aloud #beings #cannot #doctrine #ethical

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#admit #definition #enough #expert #how

Any colour - so long as it's black. ↗

— Henry Ford

#black #colour #long

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#designer #douglas #flourish #mcdonald #without

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#barns #bound #carry #collect #corn

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #being afraid #go #i #i think

Behind every cloud is another cloud. ↗

— Judy Garland

#behind #cloud #every

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ↗

— Bill Gates

#into #lose #lousy #people #seduces

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. ↗