I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving earlyCharles La...
Discover
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorg...
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Own business
When you own your own business, you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.If you know the author of this quote, please reac...
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Millionaires
Bart, with $10,000 we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love!Homer Simps...
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The right direction
Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction.Joel Bark...
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Survival in Africa
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fiel...
Bad for business
Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for the business.Thomas Dew...
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First law in advertising
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.Bill Cosby...
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Advertising
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.Stuart Henderson...
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What counts
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Albert Einste...
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The illusion of communication
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.quote by George Bernard Sh...
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Prosperous friend
It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschyl...
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The power of statistics
The average human being is the proud owner of 0.98765 testicl...
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Distrust quantitative data
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.Alvin Toffl...
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Learning technologies
The best technologies for learning are conversations and beer.Jay Cross at Online Educa 2006, Berl...
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Electricity
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.Dave Bar...
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Home computers
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 19...
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Talent and courage
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jo...
Native American wisdom
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.Native American Prove...
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The average
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.William Phel...
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Finishing things
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.Malcolm Forb...
Empowered organization - Stephen Covey
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.Stephen Cov...
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Courageous decision
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.Peter F. Druck...
Empowerment
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Rooseve...
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Opportunities
A pessimist is one who sees a difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist is one who sees an opportunity in every difficulty.If you know the author of this quote, please reac...
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Ignorance and knowledge
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel Boorst...
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Do it now
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.If you know the author of this quote, please rea...
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Empowerment - Bill Gates
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.Bill Gates...
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Innovation
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jo...
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Bicycle - Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep movingAlbert Einste...
Criminal
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Howard Sco...
Big/small/fast/slow
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.Rupert Murdo...
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.Roy A...
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Creativity
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Albert Einste...
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Just do it
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.George Patt...
Be prepared
If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax.Abraham Linco...
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Can - cannot
Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.If you know the author of this quote, please rea...
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Follow the leader
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.Joel Bark...
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Fantasy
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinkingAlbert Einste...
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Taking risks
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais N...
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Winning - Sun Tzu
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.Sun Tzu, The Art of W...
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Design
Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.Tara Hu...
Predicting the future
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.quote by Alan K...
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Successful teams
Successful teams know who they are, what they want and take ownership and responsibility to achieve it.Sean Chapp...
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Tax avoidance
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keyn...
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Good and bad
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people.The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody All...
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Price and value
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wil...
Dead horse strategies
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation , says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."Updated for the 21st century this could mean:Appointing a top advertising agency to promote the benefits of the reduced carbon hoofprint of a dead horse compared to the ridiculously out-dated and unsustainable notion of a living horse. Off-shoring the stabling and veterinary support of the dead horse to somewhere in the Indian sub-continent. Sending the dead horse on an outward bound weekend with other dead horses....
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Smoking
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.Fletcher Kneb...
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Leadership vs management - Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey...
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Statistics as a science
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.Evan Es...
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The use of computers
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.Andy Roon...
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Money can't buy happiness ?
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.Bo Der...
Home computers
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 19...
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Creativity and salesmanship
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.David Ogil...
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Crime in Germany
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.Alex Lev...
The power of statistics
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.David LettermanTechnorati Profi...
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Learning and being taught
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.Churchi...
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Lies
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disrae...
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Communication
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Mart...
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Income tax
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.Albert Einstein(also published on http://www.taxtalk.b...
Making plans
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.John Lenn...
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Choices and decisions
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.Gary Colli...
Football wisdom
If we have the ball, they can't score.Johan Cruyff(translated from Dutch: "Als wij de bal hebben kunnen zij niet scoren...
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Management vs. leadership
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.Stephen Cov...
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Gerstner on culture
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization’s makeup and success—along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like…I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.Lou Gerstn...
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Confidence
Confidence is what you feel before you comprehend the situationProve...
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Methods
You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrowIf you know the author of this author, please let us kn...
Dead horse strategies
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation , says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." Updated for the 21st century this could mean:Buying a computer program to enhance dead horse performance Declaring a dead horse less costly than a live one Forming a workgroup to find uses for dead horses Changing performance requirements for the horse Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position...
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Dead horse strategies
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation , says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."Updated for the 21st century this could mean:Bringing in a team of external consultants to focus on dead horse optimisation. Re-branding the dead horse a 'Fair Trade Horse', and affixing prominent Fair Trade insignia to its hind-quarters. Asking Richard Branson if he'd be interested in running a Virgin Dead Horse joint venture. Setting up an inquiry into the dead horse, preferably headed by a dead horse and answerable...
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Technology in business
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiencyBill Gat...
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Infinity
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the formerEinste...
Learning from history
Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.Churchi...
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Dead horse strategies
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation , says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."updated for the 21st century this could mean:Nationalising the dead horseRe-aligning the organizational aims to better fit the needs of the dead horse. Giving dead horse and rider a good bollocking (a favourite in previous centuries too). Re-structuring the dead horse's reward scale to contain a performance-related element (obviously..) Suspending the horse's access to the executive grassy meadow until it improves...
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RAM
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."Misattributed to Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981 :"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)(Thanks for the correction, Paul Cobbau...
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Prediction
"I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 19...
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