That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. Steve Jobs - American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), in the interview "There's Sanity Returning" with Andy Reinhardt from "BusinessWeek" (May 25, 1998), Quotations book 2022
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein - American engineer and science-fiction author (1907-1988), from "Between Planets", chapter 2, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" (1951)
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller - American oil magnate, sundays school teacher at at his time richest man of the world (1839-1937)
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant, if not the only, source of competitive advantage. Peter F. Drucker - Austrian-born American management expert (1909-2005), from "The Age of Social Transformation" ("The Atlantic Monthly", November 1994), Quotations book 2022
Silence your tongue for your heart to speak; and silence your heart for God to speak. John of Dalyatha, known as John Saba ("the Elder") or Yoḥannan - Syrian monk and mystic of the Church of the East (c. 690-780)
Free people make mistakes and willingly take risks. If we hold politicians responsible for everything that goes wrong, they will take away our liberty so that nothing can go wrong. They will do this not for our protection against risk, but for their own protection against criticism. Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption – British author, medieval historian and judge, 2012-2018...
Our competitors copied us and tried to kill us, but that was good: we had to keep inventing new things. Gérard Mulliez – French family entrepreneur, o.a. Auchan, Boulanger, Decathlon, Leroy Merlin, Orsay (b. 1931), Quotations Book 2022
What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret? slogan of the Boston Celtics - American basketball team
Our failures are often more successful than our successes. attributed to Henry Ford - American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947), Quotations book 2022
Dare to be wise! Begin! He who postpones the hour for living aright is a bumpkin waiting for the river to stop. Sapere aude, incipe. Vivendi qui recte prorogat horam, rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) - Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from "Epistularum liber primus" (c. 20 B.C.)
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn"t work hard. sports-wisdom, attributed to Tim Notke - American High School basketball coach, quoted by Kevin Durant (American basket ball player: "Brooklyn Nets", born 1988) and Timothy "Tim" Tebow (American baseball and football player, born 1987), Quotations book 2022
Large innovative global businesses like Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle and Microsoft all have one thing in common in their most successful periods. The founder and the visionary leader is still the CEO and remains an innovative force. Steven G. Blank – American entrepreneur (b. 1953), from "Start with a Blank page", an interview with Stein Arne Nistad in "Reflections" ("PGS magazine" 2011),...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. John Thomas - American football coach: "Green Hornets", quoted by Joe Scherrer in "Thomas Won’t Let Hornets Scrimmage", in "The Corpus Christi Times" (September 15th, 1953), Quotations book 2022
We cannot plant seeds with closed fists. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Argentine activist, writer and sculptor, Nobel Peace Prize 1980 (b. 1931), from his acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo (10.12.1980), Quotations book 2022 Nadie puede sembrar con los puños cerrados. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - activista, escritor y escultor argentino, Premio Nobel de la...
The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on. following Joseph Alois Schumpeter -...
A Master is not the one who teaches something, but the one who inspires the student to give the best of himself to find out what he already knows. Paulo Coelho de Souza – Brazilian writer (b. 1947), from "A Bruxa de Porto Bello" (2006) [Um mestre] não é aquele que ensina algo, mas aquele que inspira o aluno a dar o melhor de si para descobrir o que ele já sabe. Paulo Coelho de Souza -...
With failure comes opportunity. Glenn Llopis – Cuban-American leadership and business strategy author and consultant (b. 1966), from his book "Earning Serendipity: 4 Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work" (2009)
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it"s own wings. Always believe in yourself. motivation - Quotations book 2022
Better is the enemy of good. French proverb Le mieux est l"ennemi du bien. proverbe français