Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there
seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
No enterprise is more likely to
succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli
Sometimes when you innovate, you
make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your
other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
It is not from the benevolence of
the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their
regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
There is only one boss. The
customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down,
simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
There are no secrets to success. It
is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
A cardinal principle of Total
Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve
interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect
interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Business, more than any other
occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual
calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Henry R. Luce
And while the law of competition
may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it
ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who has lost track of time
when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams
come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
An economist is an expert who will
know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Just because something doesn't do
what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Business is never so healthy as
when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what
it gets.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Corporation: An ingenious device
for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Don't let your ego get too close to
your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go
with it.
Colin Powell
Colin Powell