“Don’t accept a no from someone who doesn’t have the authority to give a yes.”
I was not able to attribute this quote to any particular person, but I heard it in a the radio show The Change Agent’s Dilemma from Enclaria LLC (available as podcast on iTunes)
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“History is written by the victors.”
Winston Churchill
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th century American essayist and poet)
“Morality (…) represents the way that people would like the world to work – whereas economics represent how it actually does work.”
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner in Freakonomics
@Markus: thanks for borrowing me your copy of the book – I enjoyed reading it very much
Dedicated to the person reading right now what I typed a while ago – yes, that is you.
“Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you.”
Stealers Wheel
“Seeking moments of collision, looking for new and interesting projects to take on, understanding that work has become project-based where groups come together, solve problems, and then look for more problems, have all become parts of the new normal for most businesses. It is those exact skill sets that you must embrace in the here and now.”
Mitch Joel on working today (in Ctrl Alt Delete)
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
usually attributed to Oscar Wilde, but there is no substantive evidence to this
(more like coming from an anonymous marketing pen from the early 2000’s)
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
Jonathan Swift (from Gulliver’s Travels)
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
Harry S. Truman
THE SECOND HALF 