You fail if you don”t try. If you try and you fail, yes, you”ll have a few articles saying you”ve failed at something. But if you look at the history of American entrepreneurs, one thing I do know about them: An awful lot of them have tried things and failed in the past and gone on to great things. Sir Richard Branson – British company founder (Virgin) and adventurer...
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. William H. “Bill” Gates – American Software entrepreneur, Microsoft (b. 1955)
Many people carefully avoid discovering the secret of success because deep down they suspect the secret may be hard work. John L. Mason – American clergyman, speaker and author (b. 1955)
Business opportunities are like buses, there”s always another one coming. Sir Richard Branson – British company founder (Virgin) and adventurer (b. 1950)
Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. Quintus Ennius – Roman writer (239-169 B.C.), quoted by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman politician, 106-43 B.C.) in “Laelius de amicitia” (44 B.C.), Quotations book 2016
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. Wisdom – Quotations book 2016
You learn, you earn and you return. American proverb, slogan for Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger, business consultant – German entrepreneur, benefactor and foundation curator (b. 1937), Quotations book 2014
There is no shortage of financial capital. The scarce resource is human capital. Michael Milken – American financer, benefactor and innovator in medical science (b. 1946)
Capital isn’t scarce, vision is. Michael Milken – American financer, benefactor and innovator in medical science (b. 1946)
Business, real business, is not numbers and it”s not money. It”s people. You have to be able to know and to judge people. André Meyer – French-born American Investment banker (Lazard), advisor to US presidents Kennedy and Johnson (1898-1979), Quotations book 2016
You are not born a winner. You are not born a loser. You are born a chooser. Proverb
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class...
I don”t think. I don”t know. I don”t care. I am too busy. I leave well enough alone. I have no time to read and find out. I am not interested. William H. J. Boetcker – American presbyterian clergyman, born in Hamburg (1873-1962), published 1916
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson – American writer (1803-1882), from “Demonology” (1877)
Facere docet philosophia, non dicere. Philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak. Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B.C. – 65 A.C.), from “Letters on ethics to Licilius” (“Epistulae morales ad Lucilium”, 63 A.C.)
Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert. Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B.C.-65 A.C.), from “Epistulae morales ad Lucilium”, letter 77 (June 64)
No es verdad que las personas dejan de perseguir sus sueños porque envejecen, envejecen porque dejan de perseguir sus sueños. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel García Márquez – Columbian writer, Nobel prize in literature 1982...
The past cannot be changed. The future is still in your power. Hugh White – American lawyer, businessman and politician (1798-1870)
Fame is like a river, that bears up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Sir Francis Bacon – English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from his essay “Of Praise” (1612)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon – English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from his essay “Of Adversity” (1625)