Zip it
Don’t open your mouth at your first board meeting. Brian Joffe – South African company founder: Bidvest Group (b. 1947)
All Quotes
Great
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Joe Sabah – American motivational speaker (1931-2019)
Process
Processes don”t work, people do. Dr. John Seely Brown – American computer scientis (b. 1940)
Ingeniu
Ingenium res adversae nudare solent, celare secundae. Adversity often reveals genius, success conceals it. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) – Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from “Sermones” 2,8,74 f (c. 40 B.C.), Quotations book 2016
Property
As for property, it is a duty to make money, but only by honourable means; it is a duty also to save it and increase it by care and thrift. Res autem familiaris quaeri debet iis rebus, a quibus abest turpitudo, conservari autem diligentia et parsimonia, eisdem etiam rebus augeri. Marcus Tullius Cicero – Roman politician (106-43 B.C.), from “De officiis” (41...
Volatility
Stocks are much more volatile than the businesses they represent. attributed to Robert G. Kirby – American investor (1925-2005), Quotations book 2016
Make use of success
Who rests on the success of a good article, leaves the field open to the competitors for improvements and runs the risk to bore his regular coustumers. Inge G. Thulin – Swedish manager, Chairman and CEO at 3M (b. 1953)
Get up
The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell. Alain Horoit (Mr. Never Give Up) – Belgian entrepreneur and motivational speaker (b. 1969)
New paths
It is better to stumble on new paths than to make no headway on the old tracks. Jochen Mariss – German author, photographer and designer (b. 1955)
Leaving trails
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail. Muriel Strode – American poet (1875-1964), from “My Little Book of Prayer” (1904)
External perception
When as a young and unknown man I started to be successful I was referred to as a gambler. My operations increased in scope and volume. Then I was known as a speculator. The sphere of my activities continued to expand and I am presently known as a banker. Actually I have been doing the same thing all the time. attributed to Sir Ernest Cassel – born in Cologne as Ernst Cassel, British...
Inflation
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy. Ludwig von Mises – Austrian economist (1881-1973), from “Economic Policy; Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow” (1979)
Friendship
Friendship is like a track on the sand, it vanishes if not consistently re-done. from Kamerun
Smile
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Sprichwort – published in Frank Leslie`s Sunday Magazine, book 13 (1883)
Courage
Success is not final, failure not fatal, it”s the courage to continue that counts. Proverb
Happiness
Happiness is a perfume that one cannot shed over another without a few drops falling on oneself. American proverb