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- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
- I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
- William Walsh, Song
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
- Chinese Proverb
- 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 - )
- 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)
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