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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.


Leo Rosten

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JACK E. REICHERT With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,
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WILLIAM PLOMER A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting
ABRAHAM MASLOW A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
ABRAHAM MASLOW But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
GERALD FINZI I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
RICHARD STRAUSS Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
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VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.
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AMIT KALANTRI You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second ra...
MAURICE RAVEL The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE The people rate strength before everything.
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AZIM PREMJI The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A.A. MILNE Most people are wary of the absolute lowest rate,
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CARSTEN K. RATH American workers are first rate.
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LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH It's going to be a first-rate production.
JANE RILEY New York: A third-rate Babylon.
H. L. MENCKEN People may start buying before it (the mortgage rate) goes up any more.
BRENDA BINCZEWSKI I talked to several people smiling when they came out of rate negotiations.
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LIN LAING As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
SCOTT WEILAND [About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If we remain complacent, we'll be a second-rate competitor.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
THOMAS J. WATSON If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
TOM WATSON The rate to us increased fairly significantly. It's still a competitive rate.
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JON LANDAU Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world,
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