Action

Think like a man of action
Act like a man of thought

quote by Henri Bergson
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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.


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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
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Looks like work

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

quote by Thomas Edison
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Design

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

quote by Edward de Bono

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

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

Means and goals

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age

quote by Albert Einstein

The risk of failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

quote by George W. Bush

Hiring and training

Hire character.
Train skill.

quote by Peter Schutz

The average

Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was three feet.

quote by Woody Hayes, Ohio State football coach

Pierced ear

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.
They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

quote by Rita Rudner

Focus on the controllable

In life we have two categories of events:
those which we can control, and those which we can't control.
Success, they say, involves distinguishing between the two
and directing your energies toward the controllable
while having the discipline to not waste time and energy on that beyond your control

Quote by Ron Sirak

Lincoln on ennemies

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

quote by Abraham Lincoln

Fool

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

quote by Abraham Lincoln

The main thing - Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

quote by Stephen Covey

What counts

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

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")

What is reality

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are

quote by Anaïs Nin

Decision making

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

quote by Robert Townsend