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Quotable Quotes For Whatever Purpose...
Business Insights
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
-- Harold Geneen, former CEO, International Telephone and Telegraph
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
-- Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
On Communication
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
-- William Bernbach, pioneering advertising executive
In General
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-- Helen Keller, author and lecturer, deaf and blind from infancy
Fear not for the future. Weep not for the past.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
The man who views life at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-- Muhammed Ali, boxer
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious resource of our society.
-- Peter Drucker, management thinker, author, lecturer
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
-- Vince Lombardi, football coach
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
-- Robert Half, personnel and management consultant, executive and author
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or doing it better.
-- John Updike, author
On The Light Side
I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age, I want all the preservatives I can get.
-- George Burns, comedian
We don't like their sound. Besides, guitar music is on the way out
-- Recording company executive, rejecting The Beatles in 1962
Department of Clarification
There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things we know that we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know that we don't know.
-- U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, answering a question at a Pentagon press briefing
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