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• A short speech is often a good speech and certainly has the advantage of being much less able to be a bad speech than a long speech.
  A long speech is often a bad speech precisely because it was not a short speech....
• If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes, stop boring. -- George Jessel
• One condition is basic for an spontaneous public speech, and that is that one spend perhaps the better part of a month preparing it, editing it and then reducing it.
  One should never speak for twenty minutes when one has a thirty second idea....
• Drilling for oil is boring.
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
  -- Andrew Carnegie...
• You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. -- Andrew Carnegie
• The amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry, no idol is more debasing.
  -- Andrew Carnegie...
• I used to live about an hour's drive outside of New York.
  Twenty minutes if you walked. -- Mike Guido...