If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
