Shelf Life Quotes

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Shelves

  "Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work". Book by John C. Maxwell, April 2003.

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

  Kris Carr

  Long Life, Shelves, Ifs

  Interview with Sophie Uliano, sophieuliano.com.

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• It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

  Alan Alda

  Ideas, Sometimes, Shelves

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• Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

  Jessie Ware

  Shelves

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

  Graydon Carter

  Actors, Milk, Actresses

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• Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

  Scott McNealy

  Technology, Bananas, Shelves

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• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Witty, Stupid

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Yogurt

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• What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

  Joe Dante

  Long, People, Understanding

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

  Shaun Cassidy

  Idols, Shelves

  "Shaun Cassidy Creator Of American Gothic". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. December 19, 2005.

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• The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Yogurt, Milk

  "Accidental barrister who wielded his wit to share life's big joke" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

  Robert Carlyle

  Who I Am, Ducks, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Years, Games

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, People, Important

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• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Technology, Finishing

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• So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Light, Missing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.250, Penguin

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• I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Government, Talking

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Potential has a shelf life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Shelves

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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