Rolf Dobelli Quotes

#1. If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

Kristin Cavallari

#2. Only the best will do? In this age of unlimited variety, rather the opposite is true: 'good enough' is the new optimum

Rolf Dobelli

#3. Why'd you come to me?"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I care less about letting you down.

Jonathan Tropper

#4. Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.

Hillary Clinton

#5. Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

Rolf Dobelli

#6. The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested a lot of time, money, energy, or love in something. This investment becomes a reason to carry on, even if we are dealing with a lost cause.

Rolf Dobelli

#7. Whether we like it or not, we are puppets of our emotions. We make complex decisions by consulting our feelings, not our thoughts. Against our best intentions, we substitute the question, "What do I think about this?" with "How do I feel about this?" So, smile! Your future depends on it.

Rolf Dobelli

#8. Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.

Rolf Dobelli

#9. It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Rolf Dobelli

#10. A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

Dennis Miller

#11. Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.

Richard Branson

#12. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

Rolf Dobelli

#13. Emma knows I never flatter her,

Jane Austen

#14. Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

Rolf Dobelli

#15. If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

Rolf Dobelli

#16. 'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.

Willow Shields

#17. [The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#18. How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one speaks of a thief being saved.

Samuel Beckett

#19. And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.

Laura Ruby

#20. Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.

Rolf Dobelli

#21. You have to stick within what I call your circle of competence. You have to know what you understand and what you don't understand. It's not terribly important how big the circle is. But it is terribly important that you know where the perimeter is.

Rolf Dobelli

#22. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Ann Landers

#23. Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Rudolph Fisher

#24. And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

David Maraniss

#25. The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

Jason Aldean