By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- robert frost
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
- thomas h. Huxley
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- george bernard shaw
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
- niccolo machiavelli
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
- warren g. Bennis
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- mark twain
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- oscar wilde
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels bohr
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- heinrich heine
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- albert einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
- richard p. Feynman
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but i can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- herbert bayard swope
Many false step was made by standing still.
- fortune cookie
Named must your fear be before banished it you can.
- Yoda
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- benjamin disrael
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- mark twain
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- george bernard shaw
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
- viktor frankl
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- bruce lee
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
- antoine de saint-exupery
What gets measured gets managed.
- peter drucker
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention if its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the over abundance of information sources that might consume it.
- herbert simon
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits if thinking.
- albert einstein
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
- ralph waldo emerson
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
- Robert j. Sawyer
Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
- ralph charell
Meetings are an addictive, self-indulgent activity that agencies habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- dave barry
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- henry david thoreau
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
- malcom x
The first rule of technology in business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
- bill gates
The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble.
- ralph wlado Emerson
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
- john ruskin
I not only use all the brains that i have, but all the brains i can borrow.
- woodrow wilson
Creation is a better means of self expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
- vida d. Scudder
This is the very perfection of man to find his own imperfection.
- st. Augustine
To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
- robert henri
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
- frank wilczek
Being busy is a form of laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
- Timothy Ferriss
