Potpourri of wise advice and other wisecracks

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
~ Earl Wilson

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
~ Author Unknown

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."
~ Author Unknown

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
~ Mark Twain

"Those who understand interest, EARN IT. Those who don't, PAY IT!"
~ Albert Einstein

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!"
~ Mario Andretti

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The alarm bells on our nation's fiscal condition have now become a siren."
~ Sen. Mitch McConnell

"Never bite the hand that feeds you, because it will be the same hand that chokes you to death!"
~ Donluciano Reggallo

"Rich people plan for three generations, poor people plan for Saturday night."
~ Andrew Tobias

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison, Inventor

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
- Charles Kettering, Inventor

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
- Muhammad Ali, boxer

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert Ingersoll, orator

"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
~ Les Brown

"I have always found that if I move with 75% or more of the facts, I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
- Lee Iacocca, executive

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
- Thomas Huxley, Biologist

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."
- George Lucas, director


Courtesy: Mario Santarelli, O.C., CA. RE Broker/ Norada.com