Quotes

2011-08-28T01:59:54+00:00

Every now and then we come across a saying by someone wise and experienced than we are taken by the power of the meaning captured in so precise a statement. Here are some of our favorite quotes (listed by author):

Scott Adam

"There is a fine line between marketing and grand theft".

Louisa May Alcott

"Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead".

James Allen

“All that there is to the making of a successful, happy and beautiful life is the knowledge and application of simple, root principles.”

Michael Althsuler

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot”.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“The true worth of a man is to be measured in the objects he pursues”.

Aristotle

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."

Bo Bennett

“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself”.

Tony Blair

“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing”.

Ken Blanchard

“In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power”.

William J. H. Boetcker

“If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own today”.

“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success”.

Sergey Brin

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world”.

Richard Branson

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts”.

Heywood Hale Brown

“Sweet is the cologne of accomplishment”.

Warren Buffet

“In business, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield”.

Eddie Cantor

“It takes 20 years to become an overnight success”

Mitchell Caplan

“To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise”.

Roger Caras

“I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them”.

George Washington Carver

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

Mel Chasen

“The path of the Entrepreneurial Spirit not only makes you a better person, it also makes you better at your business”.

Cyril Connolly

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point”.

Chris Corrigan

“You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning. You really can't over-prepare in business”

Stephen Covey

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

“You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is”.

Winston Churchill

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm”.

Dalai Lama

“First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, and then expect changes from others.”

Edward de Bono

“Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be”.

Arie De Geus

“Once a company has adapted to a new environment it is no longer the organization it used to be. It has evolved. That is the essence of learning”.

Charles de Montesquieu

“It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things”.

Demosthenes

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises”.

John Foster Dulles

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year”.

Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value”.

“You cannot hope to repair the problems you face today by thinking the same way you did when you created them”.

“There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different”

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”

“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds”.

Michael Eisner

“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience”.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody”.

“The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function”.

Bertie Charles Forbes

“One worthwhile task carried to successful conclusion is better than fifty half-finished tasks”

Malcolm S. Forbes

“The best vision is insight”.

Henry Ford

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time”.

Felix Frankfurter

“Wisdom too often never comes so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late”.

Benjamin Franklin

“Diligence is the mother of good luck”.

Bruce Jay Friedman

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself”.

Mahatma Gandhi

“We must become the change we want to see”.

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems”.

Bill Gates

“Don’t be afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still”.

Baltasar Gracian

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."

Robert Greenleaf

“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much”.

Alan Greenspan

“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake”.

Vance Havne

“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs”.

Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated”.

Edward Hoagland

“In order to really enjoy a dog one does not merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog”.

Tara Hunt

“Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither”.

Lee Iacocca

“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two”.

Robert Iverson

“There’s a lot of comfort in being with similarly disturbed people”.

Steve Jobs

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”

Arthur Jones

"Success comes from judgment. Judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment"

Franz Kafka

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog."

John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced”

Helen Keller

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships”.

Donald Kendall

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary”.

Robert Kennedy

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly”.

Nigel Kersh

“Always keep your words soft and tender. You never know when you’ll have to eat them”.

John Maynard Keynes

“The engine that drives enterprise is not thrift but profit”.

Jay Leno

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak”.

Abraham Lincoln

“Great men undertake great things because they are great, and fools because they think them easy”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing”.

Allison Ling

"Bluntness is a virtue."

Walter Lippmann

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

Vince Lombardi

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible”.

Norman Mailer

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."

Groucho Marx

“The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”.

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read”.

H.L. Mencken

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”.

Jawaharlal Nehru

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences”.

Yanny Natashah

“Sometimes, the hardest decision made is the right thing to do”.

David Ogilvy

“In business it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create to management”.

George S. Patton

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity”.

J.C. Penney

“I wouldn’t be human if I did not feel pride and something that transcends pride…humility”.

Ross Perot

“Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality”.

Plato

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher”.

Terry Pratchett

“There’s a lot of comfort in being with similarly disturbed people”.

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it”.

Will Rogers

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Ed Rollins

“You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough”.

Theodore Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

Theodore Rubin

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem”.

John Ruskin

“The highest reward for person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it”.

“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect, and passion in their operation”.

James Salk

“The greatest reward for doing good is the opportunity to do more”.

William Shakespeare

“Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing”.

Tariq Siddique

“If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail”

George Soros

“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes”.

Ben Stein

“Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."

John Steinbeck

“I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts”

Casey Stengel

“The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things”.

August Strindberg

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves”.

Robert Townsend

“If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?”

Brian Tracy

“I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself”.

Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t try than by the ones you did. Explore. Dream. Discover”.

“A true wise man does not despise any wisdom howsoever lowly may be its origin”.

Sam Walton

“High expectations are the key to everything”

Jack Welch

“Do it fast, do it right, do it cheap. You can choose two of the three”.

Oscar Wilde

“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured”

“The only true way to be rid of temptation is to yield to it”.

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

Woodrow Wilson

“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat”.

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