E. Joseph Cossman

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.