"There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around."

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Source : Cable toBenHecht in the earlydays ofHollywood.Quotedin the NewYork Times, 8 Jan1993.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#Competition Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.”
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”
“Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.”
“The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.”
“Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move.”
“Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.321, 1895.
“The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.”
“I've seen teams spend Â£150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.”

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