Quotes

I have decided to start collecting some of my favorites quotes.

Steve Greenberg – December 31, 2011
“When your car’s engine is revving out of control and your gas tank is full, don’t think about where to get more gasoline. On the other hand, when your car stalls because the tank is empty, that is when you should think about getting some gasoline”
An automotive analogy when thinking about the timing of when to apply economic stimulus and when not to.  Where is Will Rogers when you need him to say this in the most humorous way?
Steve Greenberg – November 17, 2011
“Don’t ask the car dealer’s service department if they can keep your car in good order or if you need to buy a new car.”
A takeoff on the proverbial “Don’t ask the barber if you need a haircut.”
Steve Greenberg – September 10, 2011
“Don’t let the expedient be the enemy of the adequate”
A takeoff on the proverbial “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Mark Twain
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Steve Greenberg
“I pick things up and I write them down.”
A takeoff on a recent commercial for a local Gym and an inside joke to myself. The commercial had the over muscled body-builder looking to join a gym for ordinary people explain that “I pick things up and I put them down” as he was escorted by an affable trainer to the emergency exit.
Anonymous, often attributed to Mark Twain
“History doesn’t repeat itself – at best it sometimes rhymes”

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