13) “I think everyone should go to college and get a degree, and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated”
Al McGuire
12) “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer”
Albert Einstein
11) “Be nice to people on way up, because you meet them on your way down”
Jimmy Durante
10) “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”
Soren Kierkegaard
9) “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned”
Fast Eddie Felson, from The Color of Money
8) “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
Thomas Edison
7) “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved”
George McDonald
6) “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts”
John Locke
5) “The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everyone else up”
Mark Twain
4) “Success is never final”
Winston Churchill
3) “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have”
Thomas Jefferson
2) “The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made”
Jean Giraudoux
1) “Trust everybody, but cut the cards”
Fimley Peter Dunne