Some valuable quotes by legends

MANI GUPTA (CA) (300 Points)

17 December 2011

Some Valuable Quotes by Legends

Better three hours too soon than one minute too late. - Shakespeare
Boss or Leader? A Boss creates fear; A Leader creates confidence. Bossism creates resentment; Leadership breeds enthusiasm. A Boss says:I; A Leader says:We. A Boss fixes blame; A Leader fixes mistakes. A Boss knows how; A Leader shows how. Bossism makes work drudgery; Leadership makes work interesting. A Boss relies on authority; A Leader relies on co-operation. A Boss drives; A Leader leads. - Anonymous
Effective managers manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence. - Dan Kelly and all his friends Illinois
Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time neither works. - Quote from Think and Grow Rich
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence Only in constant improvement and constant change. - Tom Peters
Feel the power of team work; If you know that a drop of water easily gets dried And a pool of water hardly gets dried. - Brian Hu
Advice is like snow; The softer it falls the longer it dwells upon And the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Authority does not make you a leader It gives you the opportunity to be one. - Anonymous
Be thankful for problems or idiots would have your job. - Author unknown
Criticize and complain diplomatically: Praise something else first. - Contributed by Amit Shah
If you don't care, your customers never will. - Marlene Blaszczyk
Lead by example not by force. - Contributed by Dan Kelly and all his friends Illinois
Motivate them train them care about them and make winners out of them we know that if we treat our employees correctly they'll treat the customers right and if customers are treated right they'll come back. - J Marriot, Jr.
Motivation is what gets you started habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. - Contributed by Jeff Pappas
Obstacles are the those frightful things you see When you take your mind off your goals. - Contributed by Sophie & Charlotte Burtt
Partnerships are the basis for success. - Neal Prescot Washington
People who feel good about themselves, produce good results. - Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends Illinois
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!!! - Leon M CautilloIf
The desire to have things done quickly Invariably prevents them from being done thoroughly. - Sent by Jody C Burnett California
The most important thing in communication is hearing What isn't being said. - Anonymous
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. - Contributed by Nadine Bent Pennsylvania
The sale begins when the customer says yes. - Harvey Mackay
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
To lead a symphony You must occasionally turn your back on the crowd. - Anonymous
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).. - Edgar R. Fiedler
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. - Keynes
Money couldnt buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. - John H. Patterson
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
Money, it turned out, was exactly like s*x: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it, and thought of other things if you did.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. - Anonymous
Use soft words in hard arguments. - H. G. Bohn, 1855
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know. - Roger H. Lincoln
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. - Jean Gieraudoux
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon Bonaparte
It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
The first 90% of project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes theother 90% of the time.
Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all!
I love my work, I could sit and watch it all day long.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
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Price. Quality. Service: Pick two.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties.
Quote from the Boss... "I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
"Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I think we should go along with him..."
"Illegitmitatum Non Carborundum Est" - Never let the *******s grind you down!
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
An iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Winston Churchill
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill
Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. - Sir Winston Churchill
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Sir Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. - Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. - Winston Churchill
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the 'worst' form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston Churchill
Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Of course, we are all worms--but I like to think, at least, that I am a glowworm. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." - a conversation between Lady Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Sir Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. - Sir Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true. - Winston Churchill
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which we shall not put. - Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. - Sir Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain hazardous, and conflicting information. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess. - Winston Churchill
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Why Sir Churchill you are drunk! "And you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning!" - a conversation between Lady Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill