J R Platt Famous Quotes



It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.


J R Platt Quotations






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"If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway."
Mother Theresa

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
Ralph Nader

"One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates."
Hellen Keller

"The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs."
Rowland Evans Jr

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
Albert Einstein

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

"Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world."
John Owen

"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."
T S Eliot

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
Colin Wilson

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave."
Solomon Ibn Gabirol