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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful read more
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it
becomes available only when you read more
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it
becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you
know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit
until you get it.
It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than read more
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.