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- A good rest is half the work.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
- Gloria Naylor
- Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith S. Marin
- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- The Buddha
- An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery. - Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
- If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
- Robert P. Vanderpoel
- A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
- Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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