Deserve
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2016
Month: October 2015
Get ahead
Step by step you get ahead but not necessarily in fast spurts. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Removing costs
Removing unnecessary costs is a service to civilization. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2016
Committee decisions
Committees can criticize, but they cannot create. Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees. David Ogilvy - legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999)
Conflicts
Treat conflicts always as a clash of ideas, not of people. Prof. Robert Kegan - American developmental psychologist and author (b. 1946), Quotations book 2016
Industries
Instead of ceaselessly lamenting the loss of the old industries, we must simply face up the adventure to develop new ones. John Naisbitt - American scientist in the area of futures studies, who popularized the term "globalization" (b. 1929)
Helgon
Helgon äro de människor, som göra det lättare för andra att tro på Gud. A saint is one who makes it easier for others to believe in God. Nathan Söderblom - Swedish Lutheran theologian, 1914-31 Archbishop of Uppsala, Nobel Peace Prize 1930 (1866-1931), in "Den levande Guden: grundformer av personlig religion" ("The Living God", 1932), Quotations book 2016
Good Management
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. Jim Low - former speaker of the National Association of Manufacturers, from his address speech "The Human in Public Relations" (1958), Quotations book 2016
Watch children
Watching children grow up is a great delight. You see in them your own faults and your wife’s virtues, and that can be a very stabilizing influence. Sir Peter Ustinov - English actor and writer (1921-2004)
Good speech
The key to a good speech is to have a brillant beginning, a brillant ending and keep them as close as possible. Sir Peter Ustinov - English actor and writer (1921-2004), Quotations book 2016
Prosperity and adversity
Prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue. Sir Francis Bacon - English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from his Essay "Of Adversity" (1625)
Everything happens for the best
If a day has not been your friend, it has been your teacher. Wisdom - Quotations book 2015
Try
What you cannot plan out, you have to try out. Tom Peters – American author and consultant (b. 1942), Quotations boook 2015 see tompeters.com
Enthusiasm
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. attributed to Charles M. Schwab – American industrialist and steel magnate (1862-1939), Quotations book 2015
Persistence
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not - nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not - unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not - the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge - American politician, 1923-1929 30th president (1872-1933), Quotations...
Vocation
There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do. attributed to Plato - Greek philosopher (c. 428-348 B.C.), Quotations book 2015
Stock market success
To make money in stocks you must have the vision to see them. The courage to buy them and the patience to hold them. George Fisher Baker - American financier and philanthropist (1840-1931), quoted by Thomas Phelps (American stocks analyst, 1902-1992) in "100 to 1 in the Stock Market" (1972), Quotations book 2015
Character
Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but it takes character to keep him there. Wisdom - Quotations book 2015
Christianity
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis - British writer (1898-1963), from "Is Theology Poetry?" (1944), Quotations book 2015
Thankful
It"s not the happy people who are thankful. It"s the thankful people who are happy. Proverb - Quotations book 2015