Life, Love & Achievement
"There's two sides to every coin." - Unknown
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly
well." - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Billionaire
"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see
the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde, Poet
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca, Philosopher
"It's great to be great, but better to be human."
- Will Rogers
"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats
without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is
the jewel of the kingdom." - Sun Tzu, Ancient Chinese General
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is
the wealth of nature." - Socrates, Philosopher
"A man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him."
- from "The Last Samurai"
"Don't be afraid of death. Be afraid of the unlived life."
- from "Tuck Everlasting"
"A man is as big as the measure of his thinking."
- from "Think and Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Live life deliberately." - Henry
David Thoreau
"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."
- from "Think and Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill
"The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered
by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile." - Plato, Philosopher
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult;
our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through who's steady
presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." - Anna Louise
Strong, Author
Advice, Truisms & Proverbs
"Think solitude instead of lonely" - Lan
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up.
There's no use being a fool about it." - W.C. Fields, Comedian
"By all means get married, if you get a good wife you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates, Philosopher
Business
"Only satisfied customers can give people job security. Not
companies." - from "Jack" by Jack Welch
On dealing with managing performance, "I find that when I expect
the moon and the stars I often get at least the moon and sometimes the stars." - Prof.
Jeff Wagner, Department of Economics, RIT
