It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden