"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."

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Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, is said to have remarked, "You don't have to be nice to people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again."

Wilson Mizner

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Graduation Quotes

“I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined”
“It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!”
“I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.”
“I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.”
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”
“There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.”
“What is is what must be.”

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