Quotes
Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
— Harvey S. FirestoneAny enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.
— Proverbs 3-4One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
— Knute Rockne, football coach, University of Notre DameWhen you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low, fear is high, the good people are halfway out the door, and the slackers are hiding.
— Nina Disesa, as chairwoman McCann-Erickson WorldwideWhy not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
— Frank Scully, American writerNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
— Andrew Carnegie, 19th century captain of American industryThe trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
— Ruth Benedict, American anthropologistThere’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
— Aldous Huxley, English writerIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, British writer, from “The Hobbit”You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— Winnie the Pooh, Disney characterReflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
— Charles Dickens, English novelistLife is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
— Corita Kent, American muralist and printmaker
