Smart employees
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. paraphrased after Steve Jobs – American company founder: Apple (1955-2011)
Friends/Realtionship
Stick together
If you’re absent during my struggle don’t expect to be present during my success. wisdom, attributed to Will Smith – American actor (b. 1968)
Include
We all want to have something to offer. This is how we belong. It is how we feel included. So if we want to include everyone, then we have to help everyone develop their talents, and use their gifts for the good of the community. That’s what inclusion means. Everyone is a contributor. Melinda Gates – American philanthropist (b. 1964), in “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women...
Surround yourself with the right people
If you want to fly high with the eagles, don’t waste time with the chickens. adage
Teamwork
Teamwork makes the dream work. idiom, title of a book by John C. Maxwell – American leadership expert, author and speaker (b. 1947), published in 2002
Friends
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. wisdom, Quotations book 2026
Family
In the family I learn the complex choreography of love – what it means to give and take and share, to grow from obedience to responsibility, to learn, challenge, rebel, make mistakes, to forgive and be forgiven, to argue and make up, to win without triumph and know when graciously to lose. It’s where we acquire emotional intelligence, that delicate negotiation between the given and the...
Relationships
Vibrant relationships fuel remarkable results. Dan Rockwell – American public speaker and leadership blogger (b. 1964)
Friends
Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future. The people you’re hanging out with today are shaping the person you will become tomorrow. Craig Groeschel – American evangelical pastor and author, founder Life.Church (b. 1967), from “Divine Direction: 7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life” (2017), Quotations book 2025
Search for the best
You’re the average of the five people spend the most time with. attributed to Jim Rohn – American entrepreneur, author and motivational trainer (1930-2009), Quotations book 2025
Strangers become friends
There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. Irish proverb, based in the poem “Faith” (1913) by Edgar A. Guest (British-American poet, 1881-1959)
Spouse
The best way to get a good spouse is to deserve one. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2017, Quotations book 2025
Reciprocal
Relationship is based on reciprocity. Martin Buber – Jewish religious philosopher (1878-1965), Quotations book 2025
Friendship
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)
Amitié
Comme donc ceux qui tirent le gravier du Tage en séparent l’or qu’ils y trouvent pour l’emporter, et laissent le sable sur le rivage, de même ceux qui ont la communication de quelque bonne amitié doivent en séparer le sable des imperfections, et ne le point laisser entrer en leur âme. François de Sales – fondateur de l”ordre, mystique et évêque de Genève de 1602-22 (1567-1622), de...
Friend
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson – American writer (1803-1882), from his essay “Friendship” (1841), Quotations book 2021
Value of joy
To get full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), from “Following the Equator” (“Pudd”nhead Wilson”s New Calendar”, chapter XLVIII, 1897), Quotations book 2021
Marriage
Marriage is the beginning and the pinnacle of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German poet (1749-1832), from “Elective Affinities”, part one, chapter nine (1809)
Le sourire
Il est un bon moyen de se créer une âme amicale : le sourire. … Le sourire large, net. … Savoir sourire : quelle force ! Force d’apaisement, force de douceur, de calme, force de rayonnement. Guy de Larigaudie – scout et écrivain français (1908-1940), de Étoile au grand large” (postum 1943)