Stars
Ideals are like stars. You cannot reach them, but you can orientate yourself by them. Carl Schurz - German-born American politician (1829-1906), Quotations book 2002
Success
Preparation
Chance favors a prepared mind. Louis Pasteur - French microbiologist (1822-1895), Quotations book 2002
Make it more simple
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters - American author and consultant (b. 1942), from "Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution" (1987), Quotations book 2025
Knowlegde helps
Even a blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they grow in oak forests. David Ogilvy – legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999), from "Confessions of an Advertising Man" (1963), Quotations book 2025
Top performance
Our managers have produced extraordinary results by doing rather ordinary things—but doing them exceptionally well. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1987), Quotations book 2025
Above average
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), from an innterview with Vishal Khandelwal "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 1" (www.safalniveshak.com, October 31, 2012)
Are you in the right business
The key to success is to be in the right business. Thomas S. "Tom" Murphy Sr. - American broadcast executive, former chair and CEO of Capital Cities Broadcasting/ABC Inc. (1925-2022)
Way to win
The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights. [...] And when you get a few, you really load up. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2025
There is an opportunity in every crisis
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. proverb, Quotations book 2025
Grab
Big opportunities come infrequently. When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (2009), Quotations book 2025
Good
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Mae West - American actress and author (1893-1980), from her autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It", chapter 21 (1959)
Way to success
The way to be successful is to do what you love and love what you do. Leon G. Cooperman – American investor and company founder: Omega Advisors, Inc. (b. 1943), Quotations book 2024
Try
Before you say you can’t do something, try it. slogan of the Toyoda family Sakichi Toyoda – Japanese inventor and industrialist, founder: Toyota Industries Corporation, Ltd. (1867-1930) Kiichirō Toyoda – Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO Toyota Motor Corp. (1894-1952)
Perseverance and determination
Life is a marathon, not a sprint, and the thing that gets you to the end is perseverance and determination. Arthur J. Falcone – American real estate developer, chairman and CEO of Falcone Group (b. 1959), Quotations book 2024
Attitude
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Robert T. Kiyosaki – American businessman and author (b. 1947), in a "Twitter" post from June 25, 2017 (since 2023 "X"), Quotations book 2024
Cause
Work on causes, not on results. Certainly we need good results. But management by results is not the way to get good results, it is the way to get worse results. It’s action on outcome. Not on the causes of results. Costs are not causes. Costs come from causes. Work on causes, not on results. This kind of management is tampering. In place of Management By Results, it is better to understand...
Bringing capital to the best host
One of the questions we like to ask [the CEO particularly] is, how do you measure if you’ve been a success managing this business? As you might expect some say the price of the stocks goes up, or we hit our earnings target, or we delivered on all the things the board asked of us. It’s a rare occasion that the CEO articulates an idea that shows he understands the idea of compounding the...
Execution
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. L. John Doerr – American investor and leading venture capitalist: chairman of "Kleiner Perkins" (b. 1951), Quotations book 2024
Together
As we look for new answers in the modern age, I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture. Queen Elizabeth II. – British monarch, 1952-2022 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1926-2022), in her...
Success by differentiation
Success will only have those who differ. Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III. – American media entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of tv news channel CNN (b. 1938), Quotations book 2024