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Famous Quotes from the 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss – Part 4

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The first rule of any technology used in business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency – Bill Gates

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my mater. I want a full menu of rights – Bishop Desmond Tutu, South African cleric and activist

Just set it and forget it – Ron Popeil, founder of RONCO, responsible for more than $1 billion in sales of rotisserie chicken roasters

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was younger… I didn’t want to be pigeonholed… Basically, now you want to be pigeonholed. It’s your niche – Joan Chen, actress; appeared in The Last Emperor and Twin Peaks

Some people are just into lavish dwarf entertainment – Danny Black (4’2″), part-owner of Shortdwarf.com

Genius is only a superior power of seeing – John Ruskin, famed art and social critic

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all the brains that I borrow – Woodrow Wilson

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed – Vida D. Scudder, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets

Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness… thus the yeoman work in any science… is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest – Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and co creator of String Field Theory, Hyperspace

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment – Warren G. Bennis, University of Southern California Professor of Business Administration; advisor to Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts and would devour one another but for this protection – Henry Ward Beecher, US abolitionist and clergyman, “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz! Not nobody, not nohow! – Guardian of the Emerald City Gates, the Wizard of Oz

The system is the solution – AT&T

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