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Quote of the day #20

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

sometimes incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain, but actually paraphrasing a French statement from Blaise Pascal (in Lettres Provinciales, 1657)

Quote of the day #19

“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)

Quote of the day #18

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the day #17

“History is written by the victors.”

Winston Churchill

Quote of the day #16

“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)

Quote of the day #15

“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

Quote of the day #14

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

Quote of the day #13

“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)

Quote of the day #12

“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)