Quotes
Quotes about Man
The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean. Then let me go and hinder not my course. I'll be as patient as a gentle stream And make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought me to my love; And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.
When man to man shall be friend and brother.
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?
A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
