Economic depression
Economic depression cannot be cured by
legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the
cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
- Herbert Hoover -
Do more than is required
Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone
who achieves their goals consistently and those
who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
- Gary Ryan Blair -
Definition of a Statistician
Definition of a Statistician:
A man who believes figures don’t lie,
but admits than under analysis some of them
won’t stand up either.
- Evan Esar -
Business
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 -
And while the law of competition
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 -
A cardinal principle of Total
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 -
The art of living does not consist
The art of living does not consist in preserving
and clinging to a particular mood of happiness,
but in allowing happiness to change its form
without being disappointed by the change;
for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
- Charles Langbridge Morgan -
Did you ever see an unhappy
Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy
is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie -
We tend to forget
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t
come as a result of getting something we don’t have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Fredrick Koeing -
Tis easy enough to be pleasant
“‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -