54 Posts found for Source: Unknown

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Management, Training & Development

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Future

People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Problems / Solutions

The research state of mind can apply to anything; personal affairs or any kind of business, big or little. It is the problem solving mind as contrasted with the let-well-enough-alone mind. It is the composer mind instead of the fiddler mind. It is the ‘tomorrow’ mind instead of the ‘yesterday’ mind.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Innovation, Problems / Solutions

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Knowledge

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Decision Making

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man’s head. It is not what we know that is important, it is what we do not know.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Problems / Solutions

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Intelligence, Knowledge

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Ability

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Goals

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Unknown | Subject: Management

Imagination is a vantage point of the future from which we can consider that which is lacking in the present.

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

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Action, Intelligence

All progress requires change. But not all change is progress.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Progress

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Knowledge, Perception

A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Communication, Conflict

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Management

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Success / Failure