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Gordon Gekko: What’s worth doing
Cover of Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition) Finance Quote What’s worth doing is worth doing for money. – Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Related articles by Zemanta Michael Douglas: Gordon Gekko’s Take on Goldman Sachs (blogs.wsj.com) Great Scene: “Wall Street” (gointothestory.com) Release Date for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gets Pushed (pastemagazine.com)
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Mark Twain: Pause and reflect
Thought For Today Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain. Related articles by Zemanta 100 Years Later, Mark Twain Still an Icon (patspapers.com) Why Mark Twain Still Matters (npr.org) Quotes & Asides! (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com)
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Henry Kissinger: Made good under pressure
Image via Wikipedia Remember, a diamond is just a chunk of coal that made good under pressure – Dr. Henry Kissinger in Inside Basketball
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Warren Buffett: Be in a room with no one else
“The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and just think. And if that doesn’t work, nothing else is going to work.” – Warren Buffett.
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Thomas Sewell: Bureaucracies
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. -Thomas Sewell
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Thomas Sewell: Bureaucracies
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. – Thomas Sewell Embed from Getty Images
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Pablo Picasso: Everything you can imagine is real
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
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Willie Nelson: Positive results
Image by turtlemom4bacon via Flickr “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” ~Willie Nelson, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People” Related articles by Zemanta ITIL – Service Strategy (linusfernandes.com) Conflict Of Interest (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote! (linusfernandes.com) Willie Nelson and Larry King (stillisstillmoving.com) The Tao of Willie, by Willie Nelson…
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John Templeton: This time it’s different
Investing Quote “The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it is different’.” – Sir John Templeton Related articles by Zemanta John Templeton’s Lost Memo (benzinga.com) Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. proposes streamlining fund line-up in Canada (newswire.ca) Just Quotes! (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) Change…
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Frederick Leith-Ross: Like sin
Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it. – Frederick Leith-Ross
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George Sand: Ingredients of happiness
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. –George Sand [pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin], novelist (1804-1876). Embed from Getty Images Related…
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Somebody’s got to do the work
All these management fads are all good! But somebody’s still got to do the work! —Linus Fernandes. Related articles by Zemanta The Balanced Scorecard & Project Management (linusfernandes.com) The Goal (linusfernandes.com) Portfolio Management & Corporate Strategy (linusfernandes.com) ITIL – Service Strategy (linusfernandes.com)
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Warren Buffett: Diversification versus concentration
Image by Aaron Friedman via Flickr “Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.” – Warren Buffett.
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Chapman Cohen: Fragile Gods
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -Chapman Cohen, author and lecturer (1868-1954)
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Warren Buffett: Accounting
Accounting numbers are the language of business and as such are of enormous help to anyone evaluating the worth of a business and tracking its progress…
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Euripides: Hundred without a head
Image by Marjorie Lipan via Flickr Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides, Greek playwright. Related articles by Zemanta Greek Tragedy Performed by Dominos (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)
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Jean Rostand: Degrees of killing
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. -Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (1894-1977)
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Aristotle: Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
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Peter Lynch: Guts, not head
“The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head.” – Peter Lynch
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Buckminster Fuller: Great nations
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. — Buckminster Fuller Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta See Things as They Are – Then Change Them (blogs.hbr.org) So What Are…
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Warren Buffett: Excitement and expenses
“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.” – Warren Buffett
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John McWhorter: Nothing unique
First, there is nothing unique about English’s “openness” to words from other languages. Second, there is no logical conception of “proper” grammar as distinct from “bad” grammar that people lapse into out of ignorance or laziness. -John McWhorter, linguist, author, and commentator (b. 1965)
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Kurt Vonnegut: Pretense
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
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Never confuse activity with progress
Never confuse activity with progress
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Carl Sagan: Nuclear arms race
Image via Wikipedia The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. – Carl Sagan , astronomer and writer (1934-1…
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Domain and responsibility of every manager
HRD (Human Resources Development) is the domain and responsibility of every manager. No exceptions.
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Robyn Hitchcock: Everything is a reaction
Everything is a reaction. – Robyn Hitchcock
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