John Carroll University students’ faces looked pained when I told them to take all the quotations off their resumes and out of their portfolios. “OK, one,” I conceded. “But make sure it represents you well and that it’s real.” Yes, real. Because often they aren’t, or at least are not accurately attributed.

And then this article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Fun read. https://www.wsj.com/articles/things-you-know-that-aint-so-1491767842

I don’t think I’ll get the book. But the website–www.quoteinvestigator.com–is awesome.

It’s amazing what Lincoln, Hemingway, Churchill, Gandhi, Capone, Yogi Berra, Balzac and other prolific quote makers didn’t say. For example, “If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail”? Not Twain. I know, say it ain’t so.