Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dick Kampe: Judgment does not walk off
“When research walks on the field, judgment does not walk off.” – Dick Kampe.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Research
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” —Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
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Wernher von Braun: Research
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” —Wernher von Braun
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David Oglivy: Advertising people
“Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.” —David Ogilvy.
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Charlize Theron: Capital punishment
“Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.” —Charlize Theron. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charlize_theron_359714
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Sean Penn: Only in innocence
“We’ve let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it’s only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.” —Sean Penn.
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Brad Pitt: Most beautiful thing in the world
“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.” —Brad Pitt.
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Zora Neale: Formalized curiosity
“Research is formalized curiosity, it is poking and prying with a purpose.” —Zora Neale.
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Albert Einstein: Research
“If we knew what were doing it wouldn’t be called research.” —Albert Einstein.
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Phil Collins: Caricature
“Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I’ve thought about this. Conceptually, what I’d like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.” —Phil Collins.
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G K Chesterton: Tries to be ordinary
“The great man tries to be ordinary, and becomes extraordinary in the process. But the small man tries to be mysterious, and becomes lucid in an awful sense — for we can all see through him.” —G K Chesterton.
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African proverb: Favours the hunter
“Until the lion has its own storyteller, the story always favours the Hunter.” — African Proverb.
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Calvin Coolidige: Honor
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” —Calvin Coolidige.
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La Rochefoucauld: Ingratitude
“Nearly everyone is pleased to acknowledge a small debt. Many are grateful in acknowledging a moderate one. But there is hardly a man who does not, for a really great indebtedness, return ingratitude.”— La Rochefoucauld.
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Wendy Williams: Change is normal
“The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.” —Wendy Williams.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: Election to election
“Politicians will live and function election to election, citizens have to work relentlessly and long term to reclaim the beautiful, diverse and true fabric of this nation,the young have to use their imagination and defeat hate. ” —Rajdeep Sardesai.
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Federico Fellini: Oyster’s autobiography
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” —Federico Fellini.
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Simon Sinek: Our best competitors
“Our best competitors reveal our weaknesses. The goal is not to ‘beat’ our competition but rather to improve ourselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Repentance
“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death.” —C S Lewis.
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Jen Sincero: Self-confidence
“As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others’ – – – meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it’s about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It’s a knowing that you’re human, you’re flawed and awesome in…
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Karen Cohen: Retention
“Retention is achieved by: 1. Genuinely caring about a person, on a personal level (start with empathy) 2. Genuinely caring about a persons professional growth. 3. Taking appropriate action to accommodate for their personal and professional needs. And no, you can’t pick 2.” —Karen Cohen.
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Brene Brown: Posse of friends
“Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.” —Brene Brown.
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Robbie Williams: Everybody loves your life but you
“Everybody loves your life but you.” —Robbie Williams.
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Byron Katie: When you argue with reality
“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.” — Byron Katie.
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Liam Cunningham: Superheroes
“The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they’re making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.” —Liam Cunningham.
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June Whitfield: Worst thing about age
“The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you’ve got and what you are.” —June Whitfield.
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John D Rockefeller: Founded on business
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” —John D. Rockefeller.
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Bob Burg: Successful networkers I know
“The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.” —Bob Burg.
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Bob Burg: Knowing
“It isn’t just what you know, and it isn’t just who you know. It’s actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.” —Bob Burg, Best-selling Author of Endless Referrals and The Go Giver.
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Robert Kiyosaki: Find someone who has already been there
“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.” —Robert Kiyosaki.
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Charlie Munger: Fretful position
“I do think that there’s a lot to be said for developing a temperament that can own securities without fretting. I think that the fretful disposition is an enemy of long-term performance.” —Charlie Munger.
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Scott Sauls: Freely admit
“There is something incredibly attractive and inviting about people who stop pointing fingers and posing and pretending to be totally good and totally right, and instead start taking themselves less seriously and openly and freely admit that they are not yet what they should be.” —Scott Sauls.
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Warren Buffett: Dynamite
“I think it’s almost impossible…to do well in equities over a period of time if you go to bed every night thinking about the price of them. I mean, Charlie and I, we think about the value of them… Focusing on the price of a stock is dynamite, because it really means that you think…
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Ian McKellen: More to life than you know
“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.” —Ian McKellen.
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Tammy Faye Bakker: Relationship with God
“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.” —Tammy Faye Bakker.
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John C Bogle: Subtracts value from society
“On balance, the financial system subracts value from society.” —John C. Bogle, Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life.
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G K Chesterton: Just as easy
“It is just as easy to massacre men in the name of Man as to burn churches in the name of God. It is as feasible to decree inhumanity in humanitarian language as to decree sacrilege in sacred language.” —G K Chesterton.
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Armstrong Williams: Networking
“Networking is an essential part of building wealth.” —Armstrong Williams.
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Christine Lynch: Networking is marketing
“Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, your uniqueness, what you stand for.” —Christine Lynch.
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Harvey Mackay: Don’t keep score
“My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.” —Harvey Mackay.
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Robert T Miyosaki: Marinate on that
“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work. Marinate on that for a minute.” —Robert T Miyosaki.
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Ronald Burt: Better eyes
“Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes.” ~ Ronald Burt.
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Keith Ferrazi: Not greed but generosity
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” —Keith Ferrazi.
