Tag: Random Thoughts

Quotes April 30, 2023

I know both what I want and what I might gain, And yet, how profitless to know …
Robert Browning,
poet
 
 
 
 
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
Alfred North Whitehead
 
 
 
 
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
Thomas Aquinas
 
 
 
 
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius

Quotes June 25 & 26, 2022

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.
Lauren Jauregui
 
 
 
 
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
Successful negotiation is not about getting to ‘yes’; it’s about mastering ‘no’ and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
Christopher Voss
 
 
 
 
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it is gone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are always starting clear at each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
William Stanley Jevons
 
 
 
 
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie – 1835-1919 – Industrialist
 
 
 
 
Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter F. Drucker – 1909-2005 – Educator-Author
 
 
 
 
“Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.”
Bernice King
 
 
 
 
The only lasting truth Is Change.
Octavia E. Butler
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
 
 
 
 
If you keep running in circles, you only screw yourself right into the ground.
Andrew Vachss
 
 
 
 
Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.
Anonymous