Josh Billings Quotes

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute".

Be like a postage stamp— stick to one thing until you get there.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. —Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense

Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. JOSH BILLINGS

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Josh Billings once wrote, “It ain’t what a man knows what hurts him. It’s what he knows what ain’t true.

Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’t true.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there

There are a lot of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

American humorist Josh Billings wrote, “I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

The only reason for being a writer, is that you can't help it. Josh Billings

7. Make dedicated time for practice. The time you spend acquiring a new skill must come from somewhere. Unfortunately, we tend to want to acquire new skills and keep doing many of the other activities we enjoy, like watching TV, playing video games, et cetera. I’ll get around to it, when I find the time, we say to ourselves. Here’s the truth: “finding” time is a myth. No one ever “finds” time for anything, in the sense of miraculously discovering some bank of extra time, like finding a twenty-dollar bill you accidentally left in your coat pocket. If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so. —Probably said first by Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings), but also attributed to Artemus Ward and to Mark Twain

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. —BILL GATES,

Provide significant value to each subscriber on a regular basis. 2. Build a subscriber base and continually attract new subscribers to compensate for attrition. 3. Bill customers on a recurring basis. 4. Retain each subscriber as long as possible.

Fitbit is a company that knows the value of Shadow Testing. Founded by Eric Friedman and James Park in September 2008, Fitbit makes a small clip-on exercise and sleep data-gathering device. The Fitbit device tracks your activity levels throughout the day and night, then automatically uploads your data to the Web, where it analyzes your health, fitness, and sleep patterns. It’s a neat concept, but creating new hardware is time-consuming, expensive, and fraught with risk, so here’s what Friedman and Park did. The same day they announced the Fitbit idea to the world, they started allowing customers to preorder a Fitbit on their Web site, based on little more than a description of what the device would do and a few renderings of what the product would look like. The billing system collected names, addresses, and verified credit card numbers, but no charges were actually processed until the product was ready to ship, which gave the company an out in case their plans fell through. Orders started rolling in, and one month later, investors had the confidence to pony up $2 million dollars to make the Fitbit a reality. A year later, the first real Fitbit was shipped to customers. That’s the power of Shadow Testing.

I have always been fond of Josh Billings's remark that "it is much easier to be a harmless dove than a wise serpent." There are plenty of decent legislators, and plenty of able legislators; but the blamelessness and the fighting edge are not always combined. Both qualities are necessary for the man who is to wage active battle against the powers that prey.

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions. —BILL ALLIN, SOCIOLOGIST AND EDUCATION ACTIVIST

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

The purpose of a customer isn’t to get a sale. The purpose of a sale is to get a customer. —BILL GLAZER, ADVERTISING

It ain't the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings

Also, to build a million-member church, the pastor must have the evangelistic power of Billy Graham, the expositional ability of Charles Spurgeon, the apologetic answers of Josh McDowell, the teaching focus of John MacArthur, the organizing skills of Bill Bright, and the persuasive ability of Ronald Reagan.

Because there is always new news to report, we rarely get the kind of background information that allows us to understand why the news is happening. We learn that hospitals have run out of ICU beds to treat gravely ill Covid-19 patients, but we do not learn of the decades-long series of choices that led to a U.S. healthcare system that privileged efficiency over capacity. This flood of information without context can so easily, and so quickly, transform into misinformation. Over one hundred and fifty years ago, the American humorist Josh Billings wrote, “I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.” And that seems to me the underlying problem—not just with CNN and other cable news networks, but with contemporary information flow in general. So often, I end up knowing what just ain’t so.

This was the tedious process by which I found great writers, like Greg Daniels (creator of The Office) and Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who three years later had my job running the show. In both cases, they had written pitch-perfect Seinfeld scripts. Greg’s was set entirely in a single parking space and was so good that Seinfeld actually produced it. Bill and Josh’s script had George Costanza accidentally swallowing a jagged piece of glass at a party; all the guests stay for hours, waiting to see if George “passes” the glass safely. It was cringe comedy at its very best.

The Ten Ways to Evaluate a Market provide a back-of-the-napkin method you can use to identify the attractiveness of any potential market. Rate each of the ten factors below on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is terrible and 10 fantastic. When in doubt, be conservative in your estimate: Urgency. How badly do people want or need this right now? (Renting an old movie is low urgency; seeing the first showing of a new movie on opening night is high urgency, since it only happens once.) Market Size. How many people are purchasing things like this? (The market for underwater basket-weaving courses is very small; the market for cancer cures is massive.) Pricing Potential. What is the highest price a typical purchaser would be willing to spend for a solution? (Lollipops sell for $0.05; aircraft carriers sell for billions.) Cost of Customer Acquisition. How easy is it to acquire a new customer? On average, how much will it cost to generate a sale, in both money and effort? (Restaurants built on high-traffic interstate highways spend little to bring in new customers. Government contractors can spend millions landing major procurement deals.) Cost of Value Delivery. How much will it cost to create and deliver the value offered, in both money and effort? (Delivering files via the internet is almost free; inventing a product and building a factory costs millions.) Uniqueness of Offer. How unique is your offer versus competing offerings in the market, and how easy is it for potential competitors to copy you? (There are many hair salons but very few companies that offer private space travel.) Speed to Market. How soon can you create something to sell? (You can offer to mow a neighbor’s lawn in minutes; opening a bank can take years.) Up-front Investment. How much will you have to invest before you’re ready to sell? (To be a housekeeper, all you need is a set of inexpensive cleaning products. To mine for gold, you need millions to purchase land and excavating equipment.) Upsell Potential. Are there related secondary offers that you could also present to purchasing customers? (Customers who purchase razors need shaving cream and extra blades as well; buy a Frisbee and you won’t need another unless you lose it.) Evergreen Potential. Once the initial offer has been created, how much additional work will you have to put in in order to continue selling? (Business consulting requires ongoing work to get paid; a book can be produced once and then sold over and over as is.) When you’re done with your assessment, add up the score. If the score is 50 or below, move on to another idea—there are better places to invest your energy and resources. If the score is 75 or above, you have a very promising idea—full speed ahead. Anything between 50 and 75 has the potential to pay the bills but won’t be a home run without a huge investment of energy and resources.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Be like a postage stamp— stick to one thing until you get there.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Josh Billings: «No es lo que ignoramos lo que nos impide prosperar; lo que constituye nuestro mayor obstáculo es lo que creemos que sabemos y luego resulta que no es así».

Blitzscaling isn't really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy" Yet the O'Reilly critique is less an indictment of VCs than a warning to founders. If the objective of entrepreneurship is personal autonomy, founders must understand that venture capital comes with conditions. If entrepreneurs want to grow their companies at a measured pace, venture capital may well create unwanted pressures. But while inexperienced founders may need to be told of these realities, venture capitalists understand them all too well: they are the first to proclaim that cautious founders should raise money elsewhere. "The vast majority of entrepreneurs should NOT take venture capital," Bill Gurley tweeted in 2019. "I sell jet fuel," Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital agreed; "some people don't want to build a jet." As these comments indicate, VCs may be capable of backing companies in a broad swath of sectors, but in another sense their competence is narrow. Venture capital is suitable only for the ambitious minority that wants to take the risk of growing fast...

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. -Josh Billings (1818 – 85)

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CHAPTER 12 UNCOMMIT Win Big by Cutting Your Losses HALF OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO SAYING YES TOO QUICKLY AND NOT SAYING NO SOON ENOUGH. —Josh Billings

Necessity begat invention, invention begat convenience, convenience begat pleasure, pleasure begat luxury, luxury begat riot and disease, who between them begat poverty, and poverty begat necessity again.

A dog is the only thing in earth that loves you more than he loves himself." by Josh Billings.

Josh Billings: “It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

Hidup itu seperti bermain poker. Anda tidak bisa memilih kartu yang Anda dapatkan, tapi Anda bisa memilih bagaimana memainkannya.

Be like a postage stamp–stick to one thing until you get there.” —Josh Billings

HALF OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO SAYING YES TOO QUICKLY AND NOT SAYING NO SOON ENOUGH. —Josh Billings

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”  -Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ~ Josh Billings

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit. Josh Billings

«Sé como un sello de correos: pégate a una cosa hasta que llegues a tu destino». Josh Billings

Be like a postage stamp; stick to one thing until you get there.

Business schools don’t create wealthy and well-connected people. They accept them, then take credit for their success. If you get in, the school will do what it can to help you get a well-paying job within a few months of graduation, but making things happen will always be your responsibility. If you’re successful in the years after graduation, the school will hold you up as a shining example of the quality of their program and will use the “halo effect” of your name to recruit more students. If you lose your job and go broke, you’ll get neither publicity nor help, but the loan bills will keep rolling in. Sorry about your luck.

dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings

Bu hayatın yarısı çok hızlı evet demekle, diğer yarısı da zamanında hayır diyememekle geçiyor. -Josh Billings

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.... aka It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Health is like money; we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” Josh Billings

UNCOMMIT Win Big by Cutting Your Losses HALF OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO SAYING YES TOO QUICKLY AND NOT SAYING NO SOON ENOUGH. —Josh Billings

Be like a postage stamp— stick to one thing until you get there.” —Josh Billings

Genius ain’t nothing more than elegant common sense.