Squeaky Wheel Quotes:

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

- Josh Billings

topic: Business, Grease, Complaining, Squeaky Wheel

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Oil, Complaining, May, Squeaky Wheel

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Ducks, Competition, Grease, Squeaky Wheel

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

- Josh Billings

topic: Hate, Long, Grease, Kickers, Squeaky Wheel

What you see is what you get.

- Flip Wilson

topic: Imagination, Solicitors, Squeaky Wheel, Gossip Girl, Offering Advice

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

- John Peers

topic: Wheels, Replaced, Squeaky Wheel

You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

- Otep Shamaya

topic: Thinking, Oil, People, Squeaky Wheel

We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.

- Tim Gunn

topic: Grease, Doe, Needs, Squeaky Wheel

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

- Larry Wall

source: "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Brain, Mind, Wheels, Squeaky Wheel

And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

- Ted Gup

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion, Squeaky Wheel

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

- Rachel Nichols

topic: Shopping, Luck, Wheels, Squeaky Wheel, Carts