A Quote by Mark Twain

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Livy

Never promise more than you can perform.

Publilius Syrus

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

John Maynard Keynes

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

Martin O'Malley

A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.

Alex Blackwell

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Felix Dennis

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

C. I. Scofield

If we have good opportunities to perform in the U.S., Europe, or South America, we are more than glad to go and perform there.

Tiffany Hwang

I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.

Elizabeth Taylor

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Rabindranath Tagore

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

John B. S. Haldane

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Lou Holtz

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

Wendy Davis

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

H. L. Mencken

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