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- Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
- Corazon Aquino
- Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
- Alvin Toffler
- 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)
- I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ..
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Autobiographical Notes"
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