Words and Wisdom

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Thucydides

The point of wisdom is not simply to do well ... it is to do good. Patricia Monaghan

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain,

and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest lesson in life is to know that

even fools are right sometimes.

Sir Winston Churchill

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

You can only lead others where you yourself

are prepared to go.

Lachlan McLean

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan;

you should wear it inside where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable.
To be certain is to be ridiculous. Chinese proverb

The first rule of any technology used in a 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

Top executives should rate their subordinates on loyalty and competence. Those who are more loyal than competent should be fired
because they are the dangerous ones.
They will stay forever while other more competent,
less loyal people will jump ship
as problems develop.

And the loyal, noncompetent subordinates will “protect”
their bosses from the truth. Reality will be
too threatening and ugly.

When truth dies, really bad things happen.

Shapiro, Slywotzky and Tedlow

Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do,
when we have to grope rather than using
a standard response. Jean Piaget

If you hit every time ... the target is too near

or too big.

Tom Hirshfield

The good judgment we have as human beings provides
the best judgment for what we need in business. John Dalla Costa

People rise to the challenge
when it is their challenge. Belasco & Stayer

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