Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Vasily Grossman: Optimism of people
“A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of a grave is astounding.” —Vasily Grossman.
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Simon Sinek: Excitement and fulfillment
“Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got you there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Socialism and capitalism
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.” —-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Abraham Lincoln: Stormy present
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we just rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” — Abraham Lincoln.
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Simon Sinek: Remember
“When you win, remember next time you could lose. When you lose, remember next time you can win.” —Simon Sinek.
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Albert Schweitzer: Compassion
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.” —-Albert Schweitzer.
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W H Murray: Boldness
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back … Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely comments oneself, then providence moves, too.A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising…
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Simon Sinek: Employees before customers
“The employees must love the company before the customers ever will.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean Cabut: Only weapons
“Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons.” —-Cabu (pen name of Jean Cabut).
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Thomas Alva Edison: Trial after trial
“None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.” — Thomas Edison.
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Geoffrey Canada: A community can lose hope
“People don’t believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don’t have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don’t get better.” —Geoffrey Canada.
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Edmund Burke: Only a little
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” —Edmund Burke.
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Samuel Wilkes: Statistical thinking
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” —– Samuel Wilkes.
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Kirstie Alley: Spiritual side of life
“When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up – it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.” —Kirstie Alley.
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Simon Sinek: Value of learning
“The value of learning is greater when we share what we learn.” —Simon Sinek.
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William James: Six people present
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” —William James.
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Alexander Hamilton: Clamors mistaken for patriotism
“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.” —Alexander Hamilton.
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John Acton: History
“History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.” —John Acton.
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Ovid: Adde parvum parvo magus acervus erit
“Add a little to a little and there will be a great heap.” —Ovid.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Husbands
“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Society
“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Simon Sinek: Rules
“We don’t just trust people to obey the rules, we also trust that they know when to break them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Baltasar Gracian: Dignity of office
“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.” —-Baltasar Gracian.
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke: First contact
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” —Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke.
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Elvis Presley: Two highly trained certified public accountants
“I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.” —Elvis Presley.
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Charlie Munger: Deserve what you want
“The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.” —Charlie Munger.
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Simon Sinek: Building trust
“Building trust requires nothing more than telling the truth.” —Simon Sinek.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Years
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” —Zora Neale Hurston.
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Garry Kasparov: Modern propaganda
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ~ Garry Kasparov
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Nicolas Cage: Snakes
“Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there’s the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there’s the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.” —Nicolas Cage.
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Kahlil Gibran: Are you a politician?
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?” —–Kahlil Gibran.
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Nikhil G Daddikar: Accountability
‘If you say a team member is “responsible” for a task, it means the outcome for that task is solely reliant on that person.However, in the event they fail to complete it, they are “accountable” for the outcome.Accountability, therefore, is about ownership of outcomes.These definitions apply across the hierarchy. e.g. If you’re a person with…
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Rowan Atkinson: Extraordinarily presumptuous
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Simon Sinek: Arrogance versus humility
“Arrogance is thinking something is perfect after the first draft. Humility is knowing there is always room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Couzens: Social justice begins at home
“It is our belief that social justice begins at home. We want those who have helped us to produce this great institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity. We want them to have present profits and future prospects. … Believing as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital…
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Simon Sinek: Every day better than the day before
“If we work to make every day better than the day before, imagine what our days will be like at the end of our lives.” —Simon Sinek.
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Max Eastman: In favour of the status quo
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” —Max Eastman.
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Dyan Cannon: All is mind
“Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.” —Dyan Cannon.
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Mel Gibson: Happiness
“The thing we’re all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we’re very lucky.” —Mel Gibson.
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C S Lewis: Higher tribunal than him
“If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.” —C.S. Lewis.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson: Common love of good
“Ring out false pride in place and blood, / The civic slander and the spite; / Ring in the love of truth and right, / Ring in the common love of good.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Simon Sinek: We make progress
“If we think about everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed.If we do the one thing we have to do, we make progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: We like haystacks, not needles
“The speed of information really doesn’t make any difference to us. It’s the processing and finally coming to some judgment that actually has some utility…it’s a judgment about the price of a business or a part of a business, a security, versus what it’s essentially worth. And none of that involves anything to do, really,…
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Christine Lagarde: Aging population
“I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it’s almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.” —-Christine Lagarde.
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George Marshall: Prevent war to win it
“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” —George Marshall.
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John Denver: Generation of young people
“I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better.” —John Denver.
