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- Shirlee Roberts (my mother) often said, "Robin's job in life is to make people think, and he is VERY good at his job."
- When applying for a sales job, a friend was asked to give a recommendation. His reply was, "Think about it. Robin gets paid to have clients come in and get spanked by someone else."
- When I was asked to become BuildMaster for Microprose, I asked why they felt I was qualified. "Well, you have thirteen pro-Doms working for you and no one has been killed or maimed."
- To finish first, you must first finish
- Learning to look straight forward WILL cause your body to develop peripheral vision
- Kelly Johnson (the famous designer of the P-51, U-2 and SR-71) quotes:
- The SR-71 Blackbird flew Coast-to-coast record in 68 minutes. It then flew from New York to the Paris air show in two hours, shaving 2 hours and 15 minutes from the record set by the Concord. When asked about the new record, the reply was "no one will cut 2:15 off our record!"
- "If I COULD talk about it, it would already be obsolete."
- Three B's: "Be Quick, Be Quiet, but Be on Time"
- A favorite quote of Bob Mullen: "Never go to bed with any one crazier than yourself!"
- An excellent adage to live by: "Why strive for mediocrity?"
- "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!" Robert Wuhl, comedian
- A wise man has much knowledge --- a sucessful man, many contacts
- "It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
- "Impossible is NOT a fact. It is an opinion." Pancho Barnes
- A good photographer can capture a object, but a good object will capture the photographer
- "A fool with a plan is better than a genius without a plan", T. Boone Pickens
- "If you have your enemy in your gunsights, you are probably within range of their guns!"
- "We'll settle this the Old Navy way - The first one to die, loses!"
- Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision.
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