Capital allocation is the CEO”s most important job. William N. Thorndike, Jr. – American writer (*1963), from “The Outsiders – Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success” (2012), Quotations book 2021
You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. James R. Sherman, Ph. D. – American writer (1928-2005), from “Rejection” (1982), often falsely attributed to C.S. Lewis (British writer, 1898-1963), Quotations book 2021
Entrepreneurs don’t finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done. Robert T. Kiyosaki – American businessman and author (b. 1947), in a facebook message (March 19th, 2013), Quotations book 2021
Camminate con i piedi per terra e con il cuore abitate in cielo. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – presbitero cattolico italiano, fondatore dell’ordine (“Salesiani di Don Bosco”) e pedagogo (1815-1888), Libretto delle citazioni 2021 Walk with your feet on the ground and your heart in the sky. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – Italian Catholic priest, founder of the order...
Dispute supports insight and that is worth a lot. Daniel Libeskind – American architect, artist and designer (b. 1946), from the interview “Der gebaute Horror” with Susanne von Beyer (“Der Spiegel”, 18. January 1999), Quotations book 2021
What you’ve got to do in politics is be sure that what you say can be justified by principle, by argument, and to put it across. As I always say, never follow the crowd. Make up your own mind and get the crowd to follow you. Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven – British politician, 1979-90 Prime Minister (1925-2013), Quotations book...
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt fear myself more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, 1994-99 president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013), from his autobiography...
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene – British writer, expert for doll’s houses (1904-2003), Quotations book 2021
No democracy has ever been inflicted by a famine, and no two democracies have ever made war on each other. Johan Norberg – Swedish writer (b. 1973), from his film “Globalisation Is Good” (2003), Quotations book 2021
We must never miss an opportunity that God gives us to do good. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – Italian Catholic priest, founder of the order (“Salesians of Don Bosco”) and educator (1815-1888), from “Memorie Biografiche”, book VI, chapter XXXV, 493 (1907), Libretto delle citazioni 2021 Non dobbiamo mai lasciarci sfuggire un”occasione che il Signore ci...
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” George Bernard Shaw – Irish writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1925 (1856-1950), from “Back to Methuselah” (1922), Quotations book 2021
The beginnings of all things are small. Omnium enim rerum principia parva sunt. Marcus Tullius Cicero – Roman politician (106-43 B.C.), from “On the ends of good and evil”, book V, chapter XXI (“De finibus bonorum et malorum”, 45 B.C.), Quotations book 2021
Example would avail ten times more than precept. Charles James Fox – British politician (1749-1806), from his speech on expenditure of public money in barracks (April 8th, 1796), Quotations book 2021
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. Jeffrey P. “Jeff” Bezos – American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), quoted in “Jeff Bezos: Definitive Guide to PR and Marketing For Founders and Entrepreneurs — Pressfarm” (2018), Quotations book 2021
Your capacity to say “No” determines your capacity to say “Yeas”. You have to say “No” to lesser things in order to say “Yeas” to greater things. E. Stanley Jones – American Methodist Christian missionary and seminarist (1894-1973), in “Abundant Living” (1942), Quotations book 2021
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Dr. Alan C. Kay – American computer scientist (b. 1940), at a “Xerox Palo Alto Research Center” meeting (1971), Quotations book 2021
The probability of being struck by lightning is tiny, but many people are excessively terrified when they hear thunder. Peter L. Bernstein – American financial historian, economist and educator (1919-2009), from “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk” (1996), inspired by “Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking: Being the Port-Royal Logic” (“La logique, ou...
To understand God”s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. Florence Nightingale- English nurse, founder of modern nursing (1820-1910), quoted by Karl Pearson in “The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton”, Volume II (1924), Quotations book 2021
A good conversation is like a miniskirt, short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject. American wisdom – Quotations book 2021