The bass player's function along with the drums is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

In day-to-day commerce television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Art is only a means to life to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way something which is overlooked not only by the public but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.