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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Meg Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
Steven Wright

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette