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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Luck, Opportunity

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Integrity

Any company that cannot imagine the future won’t be around to enjoy it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Competing for the Future | Subjects: Change Management, Preparation

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Integrity

Intelligence is what we use when we don’t know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Intelligence

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin – more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Thought

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Progress, Success / Failure

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Opportunity

Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Opportunity, Potential

War is ninety percent information.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Miscellaneous

Confidence is more important than competence. Competence can be bought. Confidence, never.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

Competence precedes confidence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Government, Miscellaneous

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Opportunity

The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources is steadily declining in value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Trends / Analysis

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds … the pessimist fears this is true.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Philosophy

A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Adversity, Miscellaneous

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Teamwork

…success in the marketplace today is directly proportional to the knowledge that an organization can bring to bear, how fast it can bring the knowledge to bear, and the rate at which it accumulates knowledge.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Organizational Behavior

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Mistakes