The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them,

glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides

The point of wisdom is not simply to do well ... it is to do good.

Patricia Monaghan

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain,

and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
The greatest lesson in life is to know that

even fools are right sometimes.

Sir Winston Churchill

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

You can only lead others where you yourself

are prepared to go.
Lachlan McLean

To wear your heart on your sleeve isnt a very good plan;

you should wear it inside where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
 To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable.
To be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese proverb

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation

applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient
operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

Top executives should rate their subordinates on loyalty and competence. Those
who are more loyal than competent should be fired
because they are the dangerous ones.
They will stay forever while other more competent,
less loyal people will jump ship
as problems develop.

And the loyal, noncompetent subordinates will protect

their bosses from the truth. Reality will be
too threatening and ugly.

When truth dies, really bad things happen.

Shapiro, Slywotzky and Tedlow

Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do,

when we have to grope rather than using
a standard response.
Jean Piaget
 If you hit every time ... the target is too near
or too big.
Tom Hirshfield

The good judgment we have as human beings provides

the best judgment for what we need in business.
John Dalla Costa

People rise to the challenge

when it is their challenge.
Belasco & Stayer

Lead, follow, or get out of the way!

James Lundy

Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!

David Farragut

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are

three essentials for climbing high.
Aristophanes

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be

managed,
but people must be led.
H. Ross Perot
I always say to myself, what is the most important
thing we can think about at this extraordinary
moment.
Buckminster Fuller

Our solutions actually become the problem

when they don't work.
Peter Senge

Whatever women do they must do twice as well

as men to be thought of half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton

I detest life insurance agents; they always argue

that I shall someday die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat;

situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch
 Experience has shown, that even under the best
forms
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by
slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

You can make buffalo go anywhere, just so long

as they want to go there.
Gerald Weinberg

Be courageous - it's the only place left uncrowded.

The Body Shop

Few men have been admired by their servants.

Michel de Montaigne
When you win, nothing hurts.
Joe Namath

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you
are?
Satchell Paige

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill
 I will have this done, so I order it done;
let my will replace reasoned judgment.
Juvenal

My nose is huge! Vile snub-nose, flat-nosed ass, flat

head,
let me inform you that I am proud of such an
appendage,
since a big nose is the proper sign of a friendly,
good,
couteous, witty, liberal, and brave man, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac)

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is

weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore

ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Explosions are not comfortable.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

90% of everything is garbage!

Theodore Sturgeon

The public is wonderfully tolerant. They forgive

 everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

"What are you famous for?"

"For nothing. I am just famous."
Iris Murdoch

I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.

William Beckford

Re-examine all that you have been told

... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

All of life is on the wire, all else is waiting.

Anonomous circus aerialist

We are not donkeys, and some of us do

not eat carrots and we dont like sticks.
Peter Block

Three outstanding attitudes -

obliviousness to the growing disaffection
of constituents, primacy of self-
aggrandizement, and the illusion of
invulnerable status - are persistent
aspects of folly.
Barbara Tuchman
You don't drown by falling in the water;
you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

If you keep on doing what you've always

done, you'll keep getting what you've
always gotten.
Kenneth Blanchard

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Thomas Edison

You should never take more than you

give.
Elton John

Things don't have to change the world to

be important.
Steve Jobs
 We cherish our friends not for their
ability to amuse us, but for our ability to
amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh

The lighter your load, the faster you fly.

Jeppesen

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

When vice prevails, and impious men
bear sway,
the post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

All organisms with complex nervous

systems are faced with the moment-by-
moment question that is posed
by life. What shall I do next?
Roger Lewin

Anything worth doing is worth doing to

excess!
Edwin Lang
 The best is yet to come.
Leslie Wexner

Preserve me from all petty victories! ...

That I may one day be ready and ripe in
the great noontide ... a bow eager
for its arrow, and arrow eager for its star
- a star ready
and ripe in its noontide, glowing,
transpierced
... spare me for one great victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest unexplored territory in the

world is the space between our ears.
William O'Brien

The next time you do something really

nice for someone else, keep it to yourself
and revel in the abundant joy of giving.
Richard Carlson

The more he gives to others, the more

he
possesses of his own.
Lao Tzu

Most of the time, for most of the world,

 no matter how hard people work at it,
nothing of significance happens. Some
of the time, in some places, significant
change happens, especially when people
aren't working hard at it.
Gerald Weinberg

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of

little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson never played golf.

Jay Morelli

Scheme not to make what's another's

your own.
Be not a dog for the sake of a bone.
Arthur Gutterman

The right thing to do never requires any

subterfuge;
it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

Most of our assumptions have outlived

their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
The future belongs to those who earn it.
Smith Barney

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their
life is
bound in shallows and in miseries. On
such a full sea are
we now afloat. And we must take the
current when it
serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

If a man has good corn, or wood, or

boards, or pigs to sell, or can make a
better chain or knives, crucibles, or
church-organs than anybody else, you
will find
a broad, hard-beaten road to his house,
though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing grows well without space and

air.
Patricia Monaghan

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson
 Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and

Newton, and every pure and wise spirit

that ever took flesh. To be great is
to be misunderstood!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't settle for less than is possible.

Tom Peters