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The great Western Disease lies in the phrase, “I will be happy when…”

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Wisdom

What I’ve learned about business owners and human beings is that they respect wisdom but obey pain.

Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

A “stop doing” list is more important than a “to do” list.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Wisdom

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

Confucius was once asked what should be done for the betterment of the people. His answer was to do two things: educate the people and make them wealthy. Education bred an understanding of the uses of wealth; wealth made possible the benefits of education, and both led to personal development.

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Wisdom

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the right answers.

Content: Quotation | Source: ExecuNet.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

What we need is moral leadership. Plato and Aristotle said the four cardinal virtues are justice, wisdom, courage, and self-control. I think they’re still right, 2,500 years later.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Ethics, Wisdom

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Innovation, Wisdom

A society that has no rules is abhorrent, but a society that only stays within the letter of the law is not much better.

Content: Quotation | Source: scotsman.com | Subjects: Business Rules, Wisdom

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

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Measurement, Wisdom

The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subjects: Teaching, Wisdom

Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Wisdom

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Philosophy, Wisdom

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning — much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Strategy, Wisdom

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom

Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom

People forget what you said.
People forget what you did.
But people never forget how you made them feel.

With wealth you can live in comfort.
With drive you can make a comfortable living.
With peace of mind, you can be comfortable in living

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Life, Wisdom

Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Wisdom