The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.


Theodore Sturgeon

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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav...
THEODORE RUBIN
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
THEODORE TRONCHIN
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS
All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE
CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH
A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT