May 31st 2001 E. M. Forster: Howard’s End
Don’t ask for power. Seek influence. It lasts longer.
— E. M. Forster: Howard’s End
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Archive for May, 2001
May 29th 2001 Josh Billings, US folk philosopher
The trouble with most folks ain’t what they don’t know. It’s what they know that ain’t so.
— Josh Billings, US folk philosopher
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May 27th 2001 Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
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May 25th 2001 B.C. Forbes
Success is finding, or making, that position which enables you to contribute to the world the very greatest services of which you are capable, through the diligent, preserving, resolute cultivation of all the faculties God has endowed you with, and doing it all with cheerfulness, scorning to allow difficulties or defeats to drive you to pessimism or despair. Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. The business person or business enterprise that aspires to win the highest recognition for success might distinguish himself or itself, not by the magnitude of the profits, but the value of service performed.
— B.C. Forbes
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May 23rd 2001 James F. Bell
Management, in the sense of the employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management’s job to preserve the balance fairly between all of these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperilling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.
— James F. Bell
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May 21st 2001 Russell Lynes
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
— Russell Lynes
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May 19th 2001 Radney Foster
Life is not about being dealt a good hand, it’s about learning to play a bad hand well.
- Radney Foster (quoting a friend of his - name forgotten)
— Radney Foster
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May 17th 2001 S. Fleming (???)
To any business problem, there is an answer that is simple, straightforward, and wrong.
— S. Fleming (???)
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May 15th 2001 Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
— Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
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May 14th 2001 Ian Morrison (consultant and author)
In any revolutionary technology, the pace of change is overestimated in the short run, and the magnitude of change is underestimated in the long run.
— Ian Morrison (consultant and author)
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