Baby steps are just that – baby
steps. They aren’t going to take you too far.
Bacteria are the only culture some
people have.
Bad art is art that looks the same
to you every time you see it.
Bad decisions make good stories.
Bad drama reinforces our prejudices. Good drama appeals to the problems both
universal and eternal which are insoluble.
Bad intentions can yield good
results.
Bad
is stronger than good.
Bad numbers will get you every
time.
Bad spirit is more contagious than
good spirit.
Bag of wishes.
Bald from both ends – “kereah mikan
umikan” – Talmud (pursuing two goals – accomplishing neither)
Banking may well be a career from
which no man really recovers.
Banner blindness (heat map)
Baseball is the only place in life
where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
Be better than average.
Be careful not to impart your
wisdom to a guest whose background you don't know.
Be careful of the toes you step on
today; they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.
Be careful who you step on the way
up, because you may have to lean on them on the way down.
Be confident, not certain.
(Madeleine Albright)
Be fearful when the world is greedy
and be greedy when the world is fearful.
Be here now.
Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them. (Sh.12th night, 11, v)
Be quick, but don’t rush (Wooden)
Be reasonable: do it my way.
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Be sure that, the next time you
hear a ringing declaration, no one is beating on your head.
Be the change that you wish to see
in the world. (Ghandi)
Be very careful what you put into
his head. You'll never get it out. [Talking about Henry VIII]
Be very careful what you wish for,
you might get it.
Be wary. Do not lose the substance by grasping at the
shadows.
Be wary of a man who urges an
action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Be your own caffeine !
Be yourself, everyone else is
taken.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.
Beating the competition is
relatively easy. Beating yourself is a
never-ending commitment.
Beauty creates its own rules of
conduct.
Beauty has always paid better than
any other commodity and always will.
Beauty is not a passport, it’s a
visa.
Beauty will not season soup.
Becoming number one is easier than
remaining number one.
Before everything else, getting
ready is the secret to success. (Henry Ford)
Before they made me, they broke the
mold.
Before you borrow money from a
friend, decide which you need more.
Before you diagnose yourself with
depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just
surrounded by assholes.
Beg forgiveness, not permission.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Begin
doing what you want to do now. We are
not living in eternity. We have only
this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake.
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a
reputation on what you intend to do.
Beginning a war is like opening the
door of a dark room. One never knows
what is hidden in the darkness.
Behind an able man, there are
always other able men.
Behind every successful
entrepreneur stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Behold I show you a mystery; we
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
(I Corinthians 15:51)
Being a critic is like being a
meter maid. All you do is bring pain
into people’s lives.
Being a producer doesn’t
necessarily mean that your arm is laced up to your elbow in Crisco.
Being alone is not the same thing
as loneliness.
Being alone with yourself is
increasingly unpopular.
Being an editor is a mouse training
to become a rat.
Being an intellectual creates lots
of questions and no answers. You can
fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are
feelings.
Being courageous requires no
exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time,
place and circumstance. It is an
opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.
Being good in business is the most
fascinating kind of art. (Warhol)
Being in bed with a whore is like
being a press secretary to a president. You believe his story even when you
know it’s not true and you believe in his right to lie. (that hooker loved me)
Being kind is more important than
being right.
Being King is great. There's pressure, but no peer group pressure.
Being obsessive is okay. The first time you say "it,"
there's no impact. The fifth time,
they're skeptical. The twenty-fifth time,
they begin to listen a little bit. The
sixty-fifth time, they take you seriously.
Being on the tightrope is
living. Everything else is waiting.
Being president is like running a
cemetery-you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
Being rich and famous is hard, but
being poor and famous is hell.
Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time.
Being self-involved and having the
arrogance to think that you have something to say and somebody else should pay
attention is a necessary component of an artist’s life.
Being smart doesn’t mean you make
all good decisions. It means you learn
from your bad ones, and make the best of all of them.
Being unreasonable is good. It’s how things change.
Belching is not a constitutional
right.
Believe and succeed.
Believe in yourself and believe in
your dreams.
Bend but never break.
Best sales technique: show them
that the competition is doing it.
Better a friendly refusal than an
unwilling promise.
Better a terrible end than terror
without end.
Better
beans and bacon in peace than cake and ale in fear.
Better by
far you should forget and smile.
Better
counsel comes overnight.
Better face a danger once, than
always be in fear.
Better far that you should forget
and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Better is
always better. Bigger is sometimes better.
Better late
than never, but better never late.
Better not to leave here than to
have to come back.
Better Nouveau than never.
Better to be good than to be
original.
Better to lose with a wise man than
win with a fool.
Between friends there are no debts.
Between kissing and severe biting,
there is a whole continuum of inhibited biting, mock biting, playful gnawing
and love bites.
Between lovers a little confession
is a dangerous thing.
Between will and what will be.
Beware an old man in a hurry.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the lollipop of
mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck
forever.
Beware the anger of a patient man.
Beyond the “fuck it” (BTFI) –
Benjamin Zander
Beyond the mountains, more
mountains. (Deye morne ginyin morne.)
Big hat, no cattle.
Bigger is not better, but it’s
better than small.
Bigger isn’t a proxy for better,
but quantity not quality is how too many people today keep score.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of prey never weep.
Bite off more than you can
chew. Then chew it.
Bitterness and cynicism are the
unprincipled despair which arises out of thwarted love.
Anyone worth anything wrestles with
them and wins because he does not want to be limited to intelligence when a situation
requires compassion.
Blame is a way to discharge pain
and discomfort.
Blame nobody / Expect nothing / Do
something
Blessed
is the mind with something to occupy it other than its own dissatisfaction.
Blinded by their own habits.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be
alive, but to be young was very heaven. (Wordsworth)
Block-and-tackle grunt work.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood will tell.
Boldness becomes rarer, the higher
the rank.
Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. Whatever you can do or
dream, you can begin it.
Boredom is the awareness of time
passing. (Heidegger)
Born with the gift of laughter and
a sense that the world is mad.
Born with two helpings of brain and
a half-helping of heart.
Boxing: train hard; fight easy
Boxing is just show business with
blood.
Boxing is the only jungle where the
lions are afraid of the rats.
Brain-picker
Brain
plasticity diminishes over time.
Brand
loyalty is how we escape decision fatigue.
Branding
is the process of attaching an idea to a product.
Brands are like quick-drying
cement. When they’re young, they’re
stretchable and pliant, but over time they become more and more associated with
a particular thing and harder to stretch.
Brands
need to be authentic, trustwo rthy and genero us.
Bravery means finding something
more important than fear.
Brothers from different mothers.
Brightness falls from the air
Queens have died young and fair.
Broad comedy is not necessarily
dumb comedy.
Broken promises tend to rub on you
after the adrenaline subsides, especially on nights alone with nothing to think
of but regrets.
Build consensus but never slow
progress.
Build on resolve and not upon
regret.
Build on
your strengths; don’t shore up your weaknesses.
Build
Your Business to Be Bought by a Big Guy
Bunny Boiler.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one,
has become the modern form of despotism.
Burger bars and fist food.
Business and anarchy don’t mix.
Business is as much fun as fist
fighting.
Business is not a sport. It's a war.
Business model complexity is
directly proportional to business model risk.
Businesses are not paid to reform
their customers. They are paid to
satisfy them.
Businesses planned for service are
apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
But I did not die in my fiftieth
year. There are few who know me now who
do not regard that as a tragedy.
But it was like he came along and
whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.
But none of them entirely knew what
they were doing. If they had, they might never have succeeded.
But that is the way people
are. They want talent, which is in
itself something out of the ordinary. But when it comes to the other oddities
that are always associated with it, and perhaps are essential to it, they will
have none of them and refuse them all understanding. (Thomas Mann)
But these promises we make at
night, oh that’s all they are, unless we fill them with faith and love, they’re
as empty as the howlin’ wind.
But you who are strong and swift,
see that you do not limp, deeming it kindness.
Butthole surfers.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
(Hunter Thompson)
Buying a house and buying a house
on fire are two different things.
Buying Treasuries is like picking
up pennies in front of a steamroller.
By and by.
By seeing the seed of failure in
every success, we remain humble;
By seeing the seed of success in
every failure, we remain hopeful.
By the time you make ends meet,
they move the ends.
By this time, his breath was
undoing my tie.
By your own soul learn to live,
And if man thwart you pay no heed /
If man hate you have no care /
Sing your song / Dream your dream,
Pray your prayer / By your own soul
Learn to live
