Quotations

Quotes !
A good quote can shed some light on most situations (good & bad).  Collated for your pleasure:


Business quotes:

"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's also unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do". John Ruskin


"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough money to pay for something better." John Ruskin


"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."  Frank McKinney Hubbard


An important job had to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. 
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. 
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. 
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.


"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" Winston Churchill

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" Winston Churchill


"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential" Winston Churchill


"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things" Winston Churchill


"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." Dr.W.Edwards Deming

“It can be changed unless it’s against the law of the land or the law of physics”

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." -John F. Kennedy


"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."  Henry Ford


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford




Quality:

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."  Pearl S. Buck

"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do and then do your best."
Dr.W.Edwards Deming

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."  Albert Einstein

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."


"You can dress a pig in a suit, but you can't stop it grunting"



Tech:
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila” Mitch Ratcliffe



People:
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been famously quoted for saying,

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.”


"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
  - E. Joseph Crossman



"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" Thomas Szasz


“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” Laurence J. Peter


"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."  Dorothy Nevill



Wisdom !
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." Aristotle


"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."


"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift because it is called the present".  Kung Fu Panda



"Advantage of pessimism is you are either proven correct or pleasantly surprised"


"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doudt"  Mark Twain





Marketing:
If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying “Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday”, that’s advertising.

If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that’s promotion.


If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flower bed, that’s publicity.

And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that’s public relations.

If the town’s citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they’ll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that’s sales.

And, if you planned the whole thing, that’s Marketing!
- Unknown


"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."  John D. Rockefeller