Quotation Collection

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. Chuck Sigars

• time management
• passion

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. Mary Kay Ash

• ideas

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein

• self respect

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Lindbergh

• honesty
• candor

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes

• speech
• action
• thought

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

• passion
• enthusiasm

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. Karl Börne

• reputation

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them. Joseph Sobran

• constitution
• welfare

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights. Mikhail Bakunin

• rights

If I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can. Barry Goldwater

• politics
• liberty

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government. Ayn Rand

• government
• constitution

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. C.L. De Montesquieu

• government
• principle

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. Anne Tyler

• criticism
• luck

I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. Armand Hammer

• luck
• work

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates

• ignorance
• knowledge

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope

• anger

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. Henry David Thoreau

• food
• diet

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw

• food

Good is the enemy of great. Jim Collins

• greatness

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You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. Admiral Jim Stockdale

• optimism

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If you cannot be the best in the world at your core business, then your core business absolutely cannot form the basis of a great company. Jim Collins

• greatness
• business

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley

• regret
• time management

The purpose of a compensation system should not be to get the right behaviors from the wrong people, but to get the right people on the bus in the first place, and to keep them there. Jim Collins

• business

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The ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. Jim Collins

• business

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Don't try to race sheep. Don't try to herd racehorses. Anonymous

• management

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led - yes. But not tightly managed. Jim Collins

• management

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No matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. Jim Collins

• friends
• family

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You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you. Jim Collins

• leadership
• passion
• motivation

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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline - a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place. Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives away the right people on the bus, which then increases the percentage of wrong people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth. Jim Collins

• bureaucracy

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Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done. Jim Collins

• purpose

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