Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, … - Carroll Smith

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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year. . . and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

Carroll Smith

Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

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At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating. . . at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.

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The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

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We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver
engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.

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Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

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