You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
- Peter Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
- Peter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
- Peter Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
- Peter Drucker
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
- Peter Drucker
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
- Peter Drucker
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The one thing that matters is the effort.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The details are not the details. They make the design.
- Charles Eames
The details are details. They make the product. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
- Charles Eames
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
- Charles Eames
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
A champion team will always beat a team of champions.
- Anonymous
Pride is tasteless, colorless and size less. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.
- Anonymous
Hire character. Train skill.
- Peter Schutz
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Anonymous
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow.
- Anonymous
I do not believe you can do today’s job with yesterdays methods and be in business tomorrow.
- Jackson Nelson
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Something positive is better than anything negative.
- Jerry McGuire Movie
Great men talk about ideas; Mediocre men talk about things; Small men talk about people.
- Admiral Hyman Rickover
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be yourself, no one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
- Anonymous
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
- Anonymous
Even if your on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Integrity is one of several paths; it distinguishes itself because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
- M.H. McKee
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish one's growth without destroying one's roots.
- Anonymous
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.
- Anonymous
Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out.
- Anonymous
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but nearly everybody enjoys.
- Anonymous
Whatever we are is determined by whatever we think.
- Anonymous
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn’t be done.
- Earl Wilson
Temper is what gets us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- Anonymous
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Anonymous
Trust is one of those things that is much easier to maintain than to repair.
- Anonymous
We grow old not so much by living but by losing interest in living.
- Anonymous
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
- Jared Sparks
Even a fish would not be caught if he learned to keep his mouth shut.
- Anonymous
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Worry about being better, bigger will take care of itself.
- Gary Comer
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- James D. Miles
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
