Quotes Archive

" I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies. "

Lawrence Bossidy

" The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. "

Plutarch

" Governance and leadership are the yin and the yang of successful organizations. If you have leadership without governance, you risk tyranny, fraud, and personal fiefdoms. If you have governance without leadership, you risk atrophy, and bureaucracy. "

Mark Goyder

" It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundations of good relationships with others. "

Stephen R. Covey

" There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. "

Samuel Johnson

" Perhaps the two biggest enemies of success, happiness and personal fulfillment are, first, the Path of Least Resistance and, second, the Expediency Factor. "

Brian Tracy

" Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. "

Elbert Hubbard

" There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason. "

Mark Twain

" A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. "

Albert Einstein