"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer
"If you want to become like a native speaker, you don’t need to learn when you are a child. You need to use the same methods as a child." Dr. J. Marvin Brown
"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." D.H. Lawrence
Leadership n Management
"We are a very decentralized company. We’re broken down into relatively small business units. We give people who run the businesses a lot of freedom in terms of making decisions about what they ought to be doing. We don’t try to steer everything from the top of the company. The role of the CEO is to make the invisible visible and to manage the white spaces. The CEO is responsible for the sense of connectedness within the company, the white spaces being those things between the functions or the businesses on the organization chart." Lew Platt, who was CEO of Hewlett-Packard
"The people who receive the most are the ones who give the most. This is true of individuals, but also for businesses. If the focus is on how can we give the absolute best service, then the profits will follow. If a company is only focused on profits, they miss the big picture and will always be scurrying for business instead of having clients chasing them." Susan Bagyura
"It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important." James Baldwin.
"I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision." Howard Schultz
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt 1859-1919, 26th President of the United States
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." Mahatma Gandhi
(Knowledge Not Connections = Good Life) "You've got to make it quite clear that knowledge, learning, application of knowledge are what will gain you a good life. If they come to the conclusion that the system depends on good connections, skiving, cheating, then you're in trouble because he sees no reason in acquiring all this knowledge. " "So... we set out to create this system where the more you learn, the more skilful you are, the better the jobs you will get, and the better the homes you own. It has worked out that way." MM Lee
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