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QUOTES

Some funny, some inspirational, some profound, and many others. There are even some with a tie to Excel.

It’s unworthy of excellent professionals to lose hours like slaves buried in their spreadsheet project – Paraphrased from:

It’s unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation – Gottried Wilhelm Leibniz 1685

For those who say it can’t be done, please get out of the way of those of us who are doing it – Dolly Parton

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all – Peter Drucker
Be careful Excel users. How many of us have developed the most awesome, fascinating and totally
useless spreadsheet. Of course, it was deemed as such when we started.

It’s like déjà vu all over again – Yogi Berra
Your huge repetitive data spreadsheet

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt – Abraham Lincoln, Chuck Smith and many others

While a daughter was admiring the ocean, she commented “Look how large it is.” and the father responded “and that’s just the top of it” – Ted Anderson

The future ain’t what it used to be – Yogi Berra

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future – Yogi Berra

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt – Bertrand Russell

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in – Desmond Tutu

Dead fish float downstream, it’s time to stop pulling them out and find out upstream what’s killing them – Many….

You can’t talk yourself out of a mess you behaved yourself into – Unknown

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please – Mark Twain
One of my forensic accounting skills is finding this in the opposition’s submission

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools don’t take it – Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain…and most do – Dale Carnegie

A fool believes everything he reads – Proverbs 14:15

A man that does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t – Mark Twain

The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shinning – John F. Kennedy

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance–it’s the illusion of knowledge – Daniel J. Boorstan

What we have today is ignorance silencing knowledge – Many….