Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? Asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? The man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. —Daniel Amory More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. —Nitin Nohria More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure-giving up does. —Lorii Myers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. —Bill Bryson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision —Peter F. Drucker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. —Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is consciousness. —Emmet Fox More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. —Aristotle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. —Cicero More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. —Leo Burnett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. —Mary Todd Lincoln More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email