That's just the trouble with me,I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Resist much, obey little.

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

common sense isn’t always common action.

You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Following the rules doesn’t create success; it just eliminates extremes

When there are persons to be found, who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject, even if the world is in the right, it is always probable that dissentients have something worth hearing to say for themselves, and that truth would lose something by their silence.