“Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian)
Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”
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“Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
1920s
Variant: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”
“you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut”
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
“You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.”
Glengarry Glen Ross (1993), Shelley Levene
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Cited as an example of "What Mark Twain Didn't Say" in Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, et al.
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.