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| View | 1 | Lee Iacocca | Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
| View | 2 | Lee Iacocca | In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
| View | 3 | Lee Iacocca | Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
| View | 4 | Lee Iacocca | Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
| View | 5 | Lee Iacocca | No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished |
| View | 6 | Lee Iacocca | My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
| View | 7 | Lee Iacocca | You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
| View | 8 | Lee Iacocca | Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
| View | 9 | Lee Iacocca | A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
| View | 10 | Lee Iacocca | People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
| View | 11 | Lee Iacocca | The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. |
| View | 12 | H.L. Mencken | The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
| View | 13 | H.L. Mencken | The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. |
| View | 14 | H.L. Mencken | Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable. |
| View | 15 | H.L. Mencken | We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. |
| View | 16 | H.L. Mencken | It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. |
| View | 17 | H.L. Mencken | Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. |
| View | 18 | H.L. Mencken | JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers. |
| View | 19 | H.L. Mencken | A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. |
| View | 20 | H.L. Mencken | Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. |
| View | 21 | H.L. Mencken | A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. |
| View | 22 | H.L. Mencken | A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. |
| View | 23 | H.L. Mencken | All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. |
| View | 24 | H.L. Mencken | All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. |
| View | 25 | H.L. Mencken | All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. |
| View | 26 | H.L. Mencken | A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. |
| View | 27 | H.L. Mencken | An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. |
| View | 28 | H.L. Mencken | Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. |
| View | 29 | H.L. Mencken | Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. |
| View | 30 | H.L. Mencken | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. |
| View | 31 | H.L. Mencken | I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. |
| View | 32 | H.L. Mencken | I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. |
| View | 33 | H.L. Mencken | Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
| View | 34 | H.L. Mencken | Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. |
| View | 35 | H.L. Mencken | For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. |
| View | 36 | H.L. Mencken | In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. |
| View | 37 | H.L. Mencken | For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. |
| View | 38 | H.L. Mencken | Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. |
| View | 39 | H.L. Mencken | It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. |
| View | 40 | H.L. Mencken | Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. |
| View | 41 | H.L. Mencken | It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. |
| View | 42 | H.L. Mencken | Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. |
| View | 43 | H.L. Mencken | It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. |
| View | 44 | H.L. Mencken | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. |
| View | 45 | H.L. Mencken | It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
| View | 46 | H.L. Mencken | It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. |
| View | 47 | H.L. Mencken | Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
| View | 48 | H.L. Mencken | The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. |
| View | 49 | H.L. Mencken | The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office. |
| View | 50 | H.L. Mencken | Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
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