Quotable Quotes
Executive ability is deciding quickly and
getting somebody else to do the work.
--John G. Pollard
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than
ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
--Elbert Hubbard
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
--John Henry Newman
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing
till it gets there.
--Josh Billings
The question "Who ought to be
boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously,
the man who can sing tenor.
--Henry Ford
They are able because they think they are able.
--Vergil
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world
with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
--Horace Walpole
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
--Francis Bacon
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
More to Come. . .