Quotes

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering on an undertaking, I have meditated for long and foreseen what may occur. (Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted in Camping and Wilderness Survival)

Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work…while others party. If you’re not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking…then you’re giving in to laziness and no longer control your life. (David Kekich, quoted in Getting Things Done)

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. (George Patton)

Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over. (Seth Godin)

You can’t expect to carry a lot of baggage and travel fast. The artifacts we maintain should be: few, simple, valuable. (Kent Beck, XP Explained, p.42)

We become authorities and experts in practical and scientific spheres by so many separate acts and hours of work. If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.  (William James)

The unconsidered life is not worth living. (Socrates)

And it should be considered that nothing is more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than to put oneself at the head of introducing new orders. For the introducer has all those who benefit from the old orders as enemies, and he has lukewarm defenders in all those who might benefit from the new orders. (Machiavelli, The Prince)

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose. (Thomas Edison)

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing. (Thomas Edison)

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  (Thomas Edison)

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