In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Thought For The Week – July 15, 2013
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Thought for the Week – July 8, 2013
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are costs.
Peter Drucker
Thought for the Week – July 1, 2013
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison, Harper’s Monthly, 1932
Thought for the Week of June 17, 2013
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Thought for the Week of June 10, 2013
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have – When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry S Truman
Thought for the Week – June 3, 2013
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
Thought for the Week
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller
Thought for the Week
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
Thought for the Week
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
