“My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.” SuccessfulFeetAdviceResearchEntrepreneurValleysHungVisionariesSiliconSilicon ValleyPublicistsXerox Author:Robert Metcalfe
“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.” LawSuccessfulFeetLawyerWornPolicemenLawsuit Author:Robert Frost
“My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.” I CanRememberMotherFatherSuccessfulFeetTeachingDadLessonsHusbandMy DadPianoMy HusbandViolinWaltz Author:Quentin Bryce
“After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.” YearsHas BeensProblemDifficultAbilityStepsSuccessfulClearFeetSevenSolveVarietyBuyingCharlieIdentifyingHurdleBusiness Problems Author:Warren Buffett
“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!” YearsFirstsTwoShowsWantedFoundSuccessfulFourFeetDirectorsDrawingTwo YearsFreakGalleryExhibitionsFlipped Author:Betty Dodson