Boardworthy words of wisdom.

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The following are a few entries drawn from Susan Stautberg and Theresa Behrendt's Selected Quotations that appeal to this editor as being particularly pertinent to life inside the boardroom.

--James Kristie

Colin Powell: Bad news isn't like wine, it does not improve with age.

Hebrew proverb: He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity.

Billy Graham: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Coco Chanel: In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Abraham Lincoln: I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Spanish proverb: He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

Charles de Gaulle: Gentleman, lam ready for the questions to my answers.

Edward Parsons Day: To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all.

Martha Graham: To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Thomas Merton: The biggest human temptation is to settle for...