Mark Kingwell
Our most basic choice, the one that ground all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom — or some combination of all three? That’s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Accountability, Life
Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Expertise, Knowledge
Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ‘sure thing’ boat never gets far from shore.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Opportunity, Risk Management
Josh Billings, US folk philosopher
The trouble with most folks ain’t what they don’t know. It’s what they know that ain’t so.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Knowledge
Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Competition, Management, Opportunity
Radney Foster
Life is not about being dealt a good hand, it’s about learning to play a bad hand well.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Adversity, Life
S. Fleming (???)
To any business problem, there is an answer that is simple, straightforward, and wrong.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Problems / Solutions
Henry Ford
One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves — we put them there, and we can take them down.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, Life
Lyndon B. Johnson
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Opportunity, Preparation
James Collins
Great companies don’t focus on information. They focus on turning information into information that cannot be ignored.
Content: Quotation | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Information
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Adversity
Henry Ford
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Problems / Solutions
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Life
Lorrin L. Lee
Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Life
Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Opportunity
Larry Bird, former NBA Player, Coach
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop (those talents) into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish goals.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Skills, Success / Failure
Lord Kelvin (British physicist)
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
Content: Quotation | Source: Foreign Policy | Subjects: Knowledge, Measurement
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Future, Preparation
Harvey Penick
I don’t wish to sound pretentious in any way, but I’ve always tried to teach by using stories or parables. I figure if it’s good enough for the Bible, it’s good enough for Harvey Penick.
Content: Quotation | Source: Little Red Book | Subject: Teaching
Peter Drucker
In the knowledge society the most probable assumption for organizations – and certainly the assumption on which they have to conduct their affairs – is that they need knowledge workers far more than knowledge workers need them.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Organizational Behavior