
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
[When Cory’s gone, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2013/08/17/when-corys-gone, The Economist, 21 August 2018, August 17, 2013]
2013
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 1: First paragraph of Ch. 1. The Environment for System Engineering Methods
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
The Open Mind interview (1985)
Context: What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.