Wisdom, witticisms and wisecracks: a quick quiz for the sophisticated director.

• Author: Kaback, Hoffer
• Position: QUIDDITIES

OFF-PRICE RETAILER Sy Syms invariably ended his television commercials with this credo: "An educated consumer is our best customer."Similarly, better in the boardroom is the educated, literate director familiar with wisdom and witticisms about money and finance, interpersonal relations, goals and dreams, and integrity.

So, do you know who said:

1. "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

   1. Pope Francis I

   2. Ralph Nader

   3. Saul Alinsky

   4. Barack Obama

   5. Dorothy Parker

2. "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care or themselves."

   1. Martha Stewart

   2. Dennis Kozlowski

   3. Dorothy Parker

   4. Elizabeth Taylor

   5. Jackie Onassis

3. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

   1. Tony Robbins

   2. Napoleon Hill

   3. Dale Carnegie

   4. Sheryl Sandberg

   5. Oscar Wilde

4. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

   1. Bobby Kennedy

   2. Gen. George Patton

   3. Steve Jobs

   4. Donald Trump

   5. Oscar Wilde

5. "Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes."

   1. Sigmund Freud

   2. Richard Burton

   3. Alexander the Great

   4. Julius Caesar

   5. Oscar Wilde lack is

6. "The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."

   1. King Solomon

   2. Bill Clinton

   3. Hillary Clinton

   4. Jack Welch

   5. Oscar Wilde

7. "A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."

   1. Gen. Georges Doriot

   2. Arthur Rock

   3. Stephen Covey

   4. Jeff Bezos

   5. Oscar Wilde

8. "An oral contract is not worth the paper it's written on."

   1. Carl Icahn

   2. Karl Marx

   3. Karl Malden

   4. Carlo Ponti

   5. Samuel Goldwyn

9. "We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

   1. John Gotti

   2. Mata Hari

   3. William Shakespeare

   4. Samuel Beckett

   5. Samuel Johnson

10. "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

    1. LP. Morgan

    2. Henry Ford

    3. Reginald Jones

    4. Leo Strine

    5. Samuel Johnson

    Answers: 1-2, Dorothy Parker; 3-7, Oscar Wilde; 8, Samuel Goldwyn; 9-10, Samuel Johnson.

    The author can be contacted at hkaback@nycsr.com.

    Hoffer Kaback is president of Gloucester Capital Corp. and has served on several boards.