Quotes

2010-04-04T03:17:00.001-07:00

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan

2009-11-12T03:42:00.000-08:00

"Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience"

unknown author

2009-11-05T03:14:00.000-08:00

"He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey"

Japanese Proverb

2009-11-05T02:07:00.001-08:00

"A bad system will beat a good person anytime"

William Deming

2009-10-30T04:14:00.000-07:00

"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you "

Larry Kersten

2009-10-26T07:12:00.001-07:00

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire

2009-10-23T09:14:00.001-07:00

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship"

Saint Francis de Sales

2009-10-21T05:04:00.000-07:00

"Before you learn to manage other people, learn how to organize yourself"

Unknown author

2009-10-20T04:41:00.000-07:00

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2009-10-06T06:07:00.000-07:00

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken"

Oscar Wilde

2009-09-30T07:28:00.000-07:00

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

Shakespeare

2009-09-24T03:51:00.000-07:00

"We are interested in others when they are interested in us"

Publilius Syrus

2009-09-18T04:46:00.000-07:00

"Blaming others is excusing yourself"

Robin Sharma

2009-09-17T08:32:00.000-07:00

"If it's anyone secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own"

Henry Ford

2009-09-11T04:17:00.000-07:00

"Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself"

Andrew Carnegie's epitaph for himself

2009-09-08T06:11:00.000-07:00

"If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe"

Abraham Lincoln

2009-08-28T03:32:00.000-07:00

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Walter Bagehot

2009-08-21T04:39:00.000-07:00

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

Rene Descartes

2009-08-21T04:35:00.000-07:00

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

2009-08-19T10:10:00.000-07:00

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

Winston Churchill

2009-06-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you"

General Alvaro Obregon

2009-06-22T00:03:00.000-07:00

"If you teach a man anything, he will never learn"

Bernard Shaw

2009-06-11T03:43:00.000-07:00

"Humans are animals that makes mistakes"

Shigeo Shingo

2009-06-08T00:50:00.000-07:00

"Less is more"

Robert Browning

2009-06-05T08:29:00.000-07:00

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volutional and are the portals of the discovery"

James Joyce

2009-06-03T07:30:00.000-07:00

"If in doubt, throw it out"

Red-tagging rule of thumb

2009-05-28T01:00:00.000-07:00

"Perseverance is all"

Theodore Roosevelt

2009-05-27T04:06:00.000-07:00

"Strategic planning is every manager's unfavorite activity"

Henry Mitzberg

2009-05-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

"Do not be afraid to go out on a limb... That's where the fruit is."

Old Proverb

2009-05-14T05:43:00.000-07:00

"It was tough to get better when you had so many telling you that you were better than you really were"

Jim Craig

2009-05-12T09:16:00.000-07:00

"To be prepared is half the victory"

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2009-04-29T04:12:00.000-07:00

"There's good players and there's great players. To get to be a great player, you have to be able to do those things in those moments."

Paul Maurice, Carolina Hurricanes coach about Eric Staal

2009-03-12T04:55:00.000-07:00

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast"

Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company

2008-09-07T03:21:00.000-07:00

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous"

Chinese proverb

2008-08-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

"Failure to learn is the only true failure"

Tom Poppendieck

2008-08-08T01:22:00.000-07:00

"Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through."

Jacques Plante

2008-08-08T01:19:00.000-07:00

"Ever tried?
Ever failed?
No matter.
Try Again.
Fail again.
Fail better"

Samuel Beckett

2008-08-07T06:12:00.000-07:00

"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong"

John Maynard Keynes

2008-08-07T06:09:00.000-07:00

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data"

Sherlock Holmes, Scandal in Bohemia

2008-08-07T06:05:00.000-07:00

"If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both"

Gregory Corso

2008-08-07T05:41:00.000-07:00

"The indespensable first step to getting what you want is this: Decide what you want"

Ben Stein

2008-08-07T05:32:00.000-07:00

"To err is human"
(latin: "errare humanum est")

2008-08-07T05:25:00.000-07:00

"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results"

General George S. Patton

2008-08-07T05:22:00.000-07:00

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about"

John von Neumann

2008-08-07T05:17:00.000-07:00

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future"

Niels Bohr

2008-08-07T05:14:00.000-07:00

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time"

Leonard Bernstein

2008-08-07T05:10:00.000-07:00

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week"

General George S. Patton

2008-08-07T05:08:00.000-07:00

"No plan survives contact with the enemy"

Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

2008-08-07T02:09:00.000-07:00

"Planning is everything. Plans are nothing"

Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke