There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity – Mohandas Gandhi
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I probably shouldn’t be quoting this, but here you go :-) Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. — Scott Adams
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and […]
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. — unknown author? I saw this attributed to Teddy Roosevelt but that strikes me as so odd that I won’t repeat the credit. But I will at least repeat the phrase, which makes a lot of sense. […]
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? — Satchel Paige It may seem strange, but Paige’s quote made me think of zero-based budgeting: creating each year’s budget from scratch instead of making incremental changes to last year’s budget. More importantly, it reminds me to […]
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. — Maxwell Maltz
Ronald Reagan often said “Trust. But verify” when negotiating with the Soviets. More cynically during the early 90s, I used to say “trust not, want not” after combining that Russian proverb with “waste not, want not.” Happily, I’ve lost my cynicism since then, but I still use the phrase as […]