"You are going to make more money from this sign than I am!" -Pierre Tardif (to a client, in his killer French accent)
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-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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I've had this "Zig Ziglar" (I think) quote on my work board for 10 years...
"If you find a man at the top of a mountain, chances are, he didn't fall there".
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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Wonderful quote, Terry. This one has been on my refrigerator and even been moved a couple of times from old to new:
"My mother told me if you want to be a soldier, you will become a general, if you want to be a priest, you will become a cardinal. I wanted to be a painter, so I became Picasso"
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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My favorite quote from my father, a prospector, when I teased him about not hanging on to more of the money he had made [lots!],,,"Jeezus, kid, haven't you figured that out? Money's just the way you keep score". MUR
-------------------- Murray MacDonald OldTime Signs 529 Third Ave S Kenora, ON. P9N 1Y3 oldtimesigns@gokenora.com Posts: 781 | From: Kenora, ON | Registered: Jan 2003
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“The choice is up to you. If you have to carry your money around in a wheel barrow, the empty one is easier to move around, but if you ever have to dump it out, the full one will cover more.”
“It's funny, I don't remember wanting more than the next guy, but I don't remember wanting less than the next guy either!”
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-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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"We cannot expect to solve problems at the same level of thinking that created them" (Albert Einstein).
-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before." Mae West
"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy,satisfied,even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor." Paul Hawken
"One surefire eay to determine your limitations is to exceed them." ??
All panel material around here.
John Lennig / SignRider
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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"Attitude is a choice, not the result of circumstances" I don't know who first said this, but it's always stuck with me.
-------------------- Tom Bahr Custom Signs of St. Cloud, Inc. St. Cloud, MN 320-255-0588 tbahr@astound.net Posts: 71 | From: St. Cloud, MN | Registered: Apr 2002
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Art when really understood is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens and he opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists...are trying to close the book, he opens it, and shows there are STILL more pages possibile.
Robert Henri
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I guess this is kid of my motto. It's based on a something my father told me a couple of weeks before he passed away. "I believe there is no shame in failure. Rather, the shame lies in the loss of all the things that might have been, but for the fear of failure." -Kelly Thorson
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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"Most people who complain that they don't get what they deserve, don't realize how lucky they are!" -Alfred E. Neuman
"You can't talk yourself out of a problem you behaved yourself into" -Stephen Covey
"Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him." (Ayn Rand, 'For the New Intellectual' 1961)
"The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they-" is almost always, "Money."
"To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."
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This is my all time favorite. It has been attributed to Grover Cleveland but is difficult to imagine him so insightful.
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PRESS ON Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ALONE ARE OMNIPOTENT
-------------------- Bill Plater The Idea Shop 1014 N. Granite Marion, IL btplater@excite.com Posts: 3 | From: Marion,IL | Registered: Aug 2002
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I've always liked "War is the continuation of politics by another means" Karl VonCluasovitch(sp?) because it's much like "Ideas have consequences" Richard Weaver.
On a lighter note, I read the other day that Johnny carson said something like "Wouldn't life be more fair if Elvis were still alive, and all the impersonators were dead?
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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The one I believe in is "work smart, play hard"
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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'Women - ya can't live with them and ya can't get 'em to dress up in skimpy little Nazi uniforms..." _______________Emo Phillips
"Yes, I'm drunk. But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy for the rest of your life." _______________W. C. Fields
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received in letter form week before his death: Son, as we accept the fact the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we must also accept the fact, that young men may die, and old men must...
also:
Custer wore arrow shirts....
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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"Liver is a Filter"-Bill Diaz (This is his reason for not eating Liver.)
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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