A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so — Mahatma Gandhi

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim — Bertrand Russell

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
— Paul Newman

Idiom definitions (ref. usingenglish.com): “When people say that you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip, it means that you cannot get something from a person , especially money, that they don’t have.”