July 2008 | Brian Quotes

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Your own business

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:27 AM

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Labels: Business

Who pays the wages ?

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:25 AM

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages

Henry Ford

Labels: salary

Hiring

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:21 AM

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs

David Ogilvy

Labels: hiring

By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.

Phrases like "urgently needed measures for combating unemployment" roll easily off the tongue if we don't have to do anything about unemployment. A simple label can't make the complex nature of a problem go away, but it can so obscure complexity that we lose sight of it. And that, of course, we find a great relief.

Dietrich Dörner, The logic of failure

Labels: complexity , problem solving

Theory and practice

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:57 AM

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Jan van de Snepscheut

Labels: theory

Action and theory

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:45 AM

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

Friedrich Engels

Labels: action , theory

Theory

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:38 AM

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play

Immanuel Kant

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Illusion

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:35 AM

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet

Woody Allen

Labels: :-) , price

New knowledge

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:32 AM

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become

Kurt Vonnegut

Labels: knowledge

Know everything

Posted by jonathan Posted on 7:09 AM

I am not young enough to know everything

Oscar Wilde

Labels: knowledge

Plans

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:34 AM

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Labels: action , plan

Key to success

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:01 AM

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone

Bill Cosby

Labels: success

On downsizing

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:43 AM

You cannot shrink your way to greatness

Tom Peters

Labels: crisis , downsizing

Right and wrong

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:09 AM

It is very wrong to be very right before everybody else

Montaigne

Labels: innovation

Bottleneck

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:02 AM

The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle

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Labels: leadership , management

Old and new ideas

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:00 AM

The real difficulty lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones

JM Keynes

Labels: change , ideas , innovation

Simplicity

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:53 AM

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler

quote by Einstein

Labels: -my favourites , complexity , simplicity

Disorder

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:59 AM

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. Milne

Labels: :-) , innovation

Credits

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:49 AM

You can achieve anything in life, providing that you do not mind who gets the credits.

quote by Harry Truman

Labels: -my favourites , success

Brian Quotes

Change

Making mistakes

Together

Money and poverty

Training people

What is reality

Courage

Planning

Problems and solutions

Play

You can't have everything

Decision making

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