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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

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….