Quotes
Quotes about Age
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?âDavid Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.âA Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]
Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep Did soon draw in agen.
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.
