H.W. Charles Quotes

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.

Good food, good vibes. Keep up the good work.

Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.

One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble