Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
quote by Julius Comroe Jr.
Serendipity
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
quote by Julius Comroe Jr.
Happiness and action
Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action…
quote by Benjamin Disraeli, former British prime minister
but there is no happiness without action…
quote by Benjamin Disraeli, former British prime minister
Labels:
action
The illiterate of the 21st century
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn
and relearn.
Quote by Alvin Toffler
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn
and relearn.
Quote by Alvin Toffler
Labels:
learning
Learn faster
The ability to learn faster than your
competitors may be the only
sustainable competitive advantage.
Quote by Arie De Geus/Shell
competitors may be the only
sustainable competitive advantage.
Quote by Arie De Geus/Shell
Labels:
learning
Live and learn
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Quote by Mahatma Ghandi
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Quote by Mahatma Ghandi
Labels:
learning
Leadership
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
quote by John Quincy Adams
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
quote by John Quincy Adams
Labels:
leadership
Reputation
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Quote by Warren Buffet
If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Quote by Warren Buffet
Labels:
reputation
Experience
Experience is the comb that nature gives us
after we are bald
Belgian proverb
after we are bald
Belgian proverb
Labels:
experience
Our friends' help
It is not so much our friends' help that helps
but the confidence of their help
quote by Epicurus
but the confidence of their help
quote by Epicurus
Labels:
confidence
Growing old
Growing old isn't so bad if you consider the alternative
quote by Maurice Chevalier
(and... "Growing old is not for sissies" by Bette Davis)
quote by Maurice Chevalier
(and... "Growing old is not for sissies" by Bette Davis)
Labels:
experience
Making the news
It is better to be making the news than taking it
to be an actor rather than a critic
Quote by Winston Churchill
to be an actor rather than a critic
Quote by Winston Churchill
Labels:
action
,
ambition
,
entrepreneurship
Silence
If a word is worth a coin
silence is worth two
Hebrew proverb
(seen at the banks of the Thames, London)
Nothing in life is to be feared
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
quote by Marie Curie
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
quote by Marie Curie
Labels:
wisdom
Experience
A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.
quote by Mohammed Ali
has wasted 30 years of his life.
quote by Mohammed Ali
Labels:
experience
Being wrong
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition,
there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
quote by George Soros
there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
quote by George Soros
Labels:
mistakes
Every problem has a solution
Every problem has a solution
If there is no solution
It is not a problem but a fact
If there is no solution
It is not a problem but a fact
Labels:
problem
,
problem solving
A man of value
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value...
Quote by Albert Einstein
Quote by Albert Einstein
Helping others
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself,
and the other for helping others.
Poem by Audrey Hepburn
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself,
and the other for helping others.
Poem by Audrey Hepburn
5 quotes by Ricky Gervais "The office"
- If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
- If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked.
- Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
- If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it themselves.
- Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Labels:
-my favourites
,
:-)
Simplicity
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
quote by Sir Richard Steele
quote by Sir Richard Steele
Labels:
simplicity
Inspire
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.
quote by Winston Churchill
Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.
quote by Winston Churchill
Labels:
authenticity
,
communication
,
enthousiasm
Unforeseen
We are ready for any unforeseen event which may or may not happen.
quote by George W. Bush
quote by George W. Bush
Labels:
confidence
,
optimism
,
risk
,
survival
Creativity
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties
quote by Erich Fromm
quote by Erich Fromm
Labels:
courage
,
creativity
,
risk
Two apples
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
quote by George Bernard Shaw
Labels:
-my favourites
,
ideas
Responsibility
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Quote by Obama Barack
Quote by Obama Barack
Labels:
responsibility
Looks like work
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
quote by Thomas Edison
quote by Thomas Edison
Labels:
-my favourites
,
opportunity
,
work
Optimist & pessimist
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
quote by Chauncey Mitchell Depew
quote by Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Profits & losses
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
quote by Winston Churchill
quote by Winston Churchill
No depression in Los Angeles - 1933
Depression? We have no depression in Los Angeles; but I will admit that we are having the worst boom in many years.
quote by the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce when he was asked how the depression had hit Los Angeles, January 1933
quote by the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce when he was asked how the depression had hit Los Angeles, January 1933
Labels:
crisis
Scary questions
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
quote by Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
quote by Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
The second mouse
The early bird catches the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Labels:
opportunity
,
winning
Optimist & pessimist
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
quote by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
quote by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Define it
You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it.
quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.
quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.
Labels:
innovation
The art of communication
Put it before them briefly so they will read it,
clearly so they will appreciate it,
picturesquely so they will remember it
and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
quote by Joseph Pulitzer, Editor
clearly so they will appreciate it,
picturesquely so they will remember it
and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
quote by Joseph Pulitzer, Editor
Labels:
communication
Optimist & pessimist
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
quote by Gil Stern
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
quote by Gil Stern
A hammer and a nail
If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail.
quote by Bernard Baruch
quote by Bernard Baruch
Labels:
creativity
,
innovation
Branding / rebranding
Hanging a sign on a cow that says ‘I am a horse’ does not make it a horse.
Unknown
Unknown
Labels:
authenticity
Impossible situations
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
quote by Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer
quote by Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer
Labels:
opportunity
Not enough time ?
Don't say you don't have enough time.
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Labels:
ambition
,
entrepreneurship
,
goals
,
time
Incrementalism
Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.
quote by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
quote by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
Labels:
innovation
300 ! Celebrate !
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
quote by Thomas J. Peters
This is quote number 300 on Quotes for Business !
Thank you all, contributors and readers
quote by Thomas J. Peters
This is quote number 300 on Quotes for Business !
Thank you all, contributors and readers
Prosperity / recession
Prosperity is when people buy things they can't afford; recession is when they stop doing it.
quote by H. Martz
quote by H. Martz
Recession wisdom - 1933
Surely the ability to get laughter out of trivial things, under miserable conditions, is not an entirely worthless result of the depression.
I have little hope of getting started again in my former business,
so I can have the thrill of planning my future all over again.
Quote by Gordon Byron, December 1933
I have little hope of getting started again in my former business,
so I can have the thrill of planning my future all over again.
Quote by Gordon Byron, December 1933
The art of war
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
quote by Sun Tzu
quote by Sun Tzu
Labels:
competition
Consulting
If you're not part of the solution
there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem
there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem
Labels:
:-)
Clarke on innovation
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
quote by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
quote by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
Labels:
innovation
Demagogue
 |
The secret of the demagogue is to make herself as stupid as her audience so that they believe they are as clever as she is.
Seen in NY, 5th Avenue
Labels:
communication
Barrier to success
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
quote by Sven Goran Eriksson
quote by Sven Goran Eriksson
Design
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
quote by Edward de Bono
quote by Edward de Bono
Labels:
-my favourites
,
creativity
,
design
,
innovation
Luck
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
quote by Seneca, Roman Philosopher
quote by Seneca, Roman Philosopher
Labels:
opportunity
,
preparation
Mediocre work
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
quote by Ayn Rand
quote by Ayn Rand
Labels:
ambition
,
enthousiasm
,
motivation
,
people
,
work
The art of war
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
quote by Sun Tzu, the Art of War
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
quote by Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Labels:
competition
Internet = anarchy experiment
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand,
the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
quote by Eric Schmidt
the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
quote by Eric Schmidt
Labels:
internet
Simplicity in measurement
Simplicity applies to measurement also. Too often we measure everything and understand nothing.
quote by Jack Welch
quote by Jack Welch
Labels:
complexity
,
measurement
,
simplicity
A brand is a promise
A brand is a promise.
It creates expectations that the product has to deliver.
quote by Guillaume Van de Stighelen (Duval Guillaume)
It creates expectations that the product has to deliver.
quote by Guillaume Van de Stighelen (Duval Guillaume)
Labels:
advertising
Capitalism vs socialism
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
quote by Winston Churchill
quote by Winston Churchill
Labels:
capitalism
,
communism
That's funny...
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not, “Eureka!” (“I found it!”) but rather, “Hmm... that’s funny...”
quote by Isaac Asimov
quote by Isaac Asimov
Labels:
innovation
Speed waiting
I took a course in speed waiting.
Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.
quote by Steven Wright
Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.
quote by Steven Wright
as if the world were watching
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
quote by Thomas Jefferson
Labels:
action
Warren Buffet on statistics and metrics
I don't need to know a lady's weight
to know if she is fat or not
quote by Warren Buffet
to know if she is fat or not
quote by Warren Buffet
Labels:
-my favourites
,
statistics
Transparency
Transparency is only a problem if you have something to hide
Hans
(came up in a meeting on corporate social media interaction)
Hans
(came up in a meeting on corporate social media interaction)
Spend money
It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
quote by P. J. O'Rourke
quote by P. J. O'Rourke
Labels:
confidence
Definition of wealth
Wealth:
any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year
than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
quote by H. Mencken
any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year
than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
quote by H. Mencken
Labels:
-my favourites
,
:-)
,
wealth
Job security
Any organization that thinks it can guarantee job security is going a dead end.
Only satisfied customers can give people job security. Not companies.
quote by Jack Welch
Only satisfied customers can give people job security. Not companies.
quote by Jack Welch
Practice ?
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do 'practice'?"
quote by George Carlin
quote by George Carlin
Labels:
:-)
Means and goals
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age
quote by Albert Einstein
quote by Albert Einstein
Labels:
-my favourites
,
goals
Stop digging
When you're in a pit, the first thing to do is to stop digging.
quote by James Ellman, Seacliffe Capital
quote by James Ellman, Seacliffe Capital
Labels:
crisis
Bill Gates on the internet
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
quote by Bill Gates
quote by Bill Gates
Labels:
internet
Fool the people
You can fool some of the people some of the time,
and some of the people all of the time,
and that is sufficient.
and some of the people all of the time,
and that is sufficient.
Carreer in Washington
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Quote by Harry Truman
Quote by Harry Truman
Labels:
carreer
New Year
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
quote by Bill Vaughn
quote by Bill Vaughn
Judges and generosity
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
quote by P. G. Woodehouse
quote by P. G. Woodehouse
Labels:
law