Goals and dreams
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. wisdom
Month: August 2017
Bon livre
A good book is a good friend. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - French writer (1737-1814), from "Paul and Virginie" (1788), Quotations book 2018 Un bon livre est un bon ami. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - écrivain français (1737-1814), de "Paul et Virginie" (1788), Brochure de citation 2018
Psychology
Platforms change – psychology doesn’t. Michael Fishman - American marketing expert and business consultant (b. 1960), Quotations book 2018
Courage instaed of conformity
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May - American existential psychologist (1909-1994), alongside Viktor E. Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy, following a passage from "Man"s Search for himself" (1953), Quotations book 2018
Greatness
If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If, on the other hand, you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants. David Ogilvy - legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999), Quotations books 2002 + 2018
Staff selection
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. David Ogilvy - legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999), Quotations book 2018
Try, try, try
Failure and invention are inseparable twins. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), in his letter to the shareholders (2016), Quotations book 2018
Customer-focus
If you"re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), from an U.S.-News-interview with David LaGesse (2008), Quotations book 2018
Homerun
If you"re looking for a home run – a great investment for five years or ten years or more – then the only way to beat this enormous fog that covers the future is to identify a long-term trend that will give a particular business some sort of edge. Ralph Wanger – American fund manager (b. 1933), Quotations book 2019
Patience
I will put out the fire of anger with the water of patience. ཁོང་ཁྲོའི་མེ་ལ་བཟོད་པའི་ཆུས་བྲན་པ Tibetan proverb
Peace
Only when you have made peace within yourself will you be able to make peace in the world. Simcha Bunim Bonhart of Peshischa - Polish Hassidic rabbi (1765-1827), Quotations book 2018
Leadership
Leadership is discovering the company"s destiny and having the courage to follow it ... companies that endure have a noble purpose. Joseph "Joe" Jaworski – American lawyer and business advisor, American Leadership Forum (b. 1934), Quotations book 2018
Free Press
The free press is a cornerstone of democracy. People have a need to know. Journalists have a right to tell. Finding the facts can be difficult. Reporting the story can be dangerous. Freedom includes the right to be outrageous. Responsibility includes the duty to be fair. News is history in the making. Journalists provide the first draft of history. A free press, at its best, reveals the...
Work
Work is love made visible. Khalil Gibran - Lebanese Maronite poet, philosopher and artist, aka Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), from "The Prophet (1923), Quotations book 2018
What it takes to be Number One
Winning is not a sometime thing; it"s an all the time thing. You don"t win once in a while; you don"t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that"s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don"t ever want to...
True treasure
It was not till we were as poor as a church mouse and up to our neck in water, that we began to think again of the true treasure of the church - the Gospel - and to distribute this treasure to all. John T. Finney - English Anglican theologian, 1993-98 Bishop of Pontefract (b. 1932), Quotations book 2018
Kiss many frogs to find a prince
I"d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), Quotations book 2018
Fondation solide
Trees with deep roots grow tall. Frédéric Mistral - French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language, Nobel Prize in literature 1904 (1830-1914), from his poem "La Brassado" in "Lis isclo d’or" (1875), Quotations book 2018 Les arbres aux racines profondes sont ceux qui montent haut. Lis aubre que van founs soun li que mounton aut. Frédéric Mistral - écrivain et lexicographe français de...
Scepticism or pessimism
Scepticism and pessimism aren’t synonymous. Scepticism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pessimism is excessive. Howard S. Marks - American investor, Co-Chairman Oaktree Capital Management (b. 1946), from "The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor" (2012), Quotations book...
Bear risks
It’s the investor’s job to intelligently bear risk for profit. Doing it well is what separates the best from the rest. Howard S. Marks - American investor, Co-Chairman Oaktree Capital Management (b. 1946), from "The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor" (2012), Quotations book 2018