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“People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.” — Michael Lewis

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“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berra

Context:When giving directions to his New Jersey home, which is accessible via both routes after a fork.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations

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“It's déjà vu all over again.” — Yogi Berra

Context:On watching Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris hit back-to-back home runs (for a second time) during the 1960's season.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations

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“Never, never, never, never give up.” — Winston Churchill

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“Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.” — Jonathon Ive

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“I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas Edison

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“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.” — Charlie Munger

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“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” — Henry Ford

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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” — Charles Darwin

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