Quotes

"If you fail to control the events in your life, the event sin your life control you."  -  Unknown

"In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it.  In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold."  -  Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility

"The biggest impediment to high performance is short-term focus."  -  Susan Annunzio

"Hearts, not eyeballs, count"  -  Denise Shiffman, The Age of Engage

"Don't act.  Behave."  - Stella Adler

"Markets are converstations"  -  Doc Searls & Dave Weinberger in The Cluetrain Manifesto

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."   -  Talmud

"Become a better observer of people.  This cannot be done on the internet.  It must be honed in personal interactions."  -  Curtis Jackson (a.k.a. 50 Cent), The 50th Rule

"He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still."  -  Samuel Butler

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."    - George Barnard Shaw

"Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."  - William Shakespeare

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."   -  Henry David Thoreau

"Mistakes are the by product of innovation."  - Stephen Ross

"Half of my advertising works, I just don't know which half"  -  John Wanamaker

 

"There is a right way and a wrong way.  The right way is to respect what you are going after instead of always trying to make a buck off of it."  -  Talib Kweli

"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor."  - Aristotle 

"If it is broken fix it.  If it's not broken, fix it anyway"  -  Lou Gerstner

"A successful imaginer has the imagination of a 5 year old with the wisdom of a grandparent."    -  Walt Disney

"Every conversations is with myself, sometimes they involve other people."  -  Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations

"You'd be surprised at how much you can observe by watching."  - Yogi Berra

"Every man has his own vocation.  Talent is the call.  There is one direction in which all is open to him.  He is like a ship in a river; he runs like a ship in a river; he runs against obstacles on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea."  -  Ralph Waldo Emerson