Tuesday, December 30, 2014

1-12 2015

Honest people don't hide their deeds. 
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) 
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer (900 BC-800 BC)
 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
 And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
If the market is going your way, you'll never have enough on. If the market's going against you, you'll always have too many!
Richard H. Hoagland, 40 year floor trader.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
People who dream of starting their own business should realize that success will not depend upon the size of the business or the size of the bankroll, says Leonard M. Greene, author of Inventorship: The Art of Innovation (John Wiley & Sons): “Not having a lot of money at the beginning can even be an advantage. Beginners with much capital often don't know how to use it properly.”
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. 
Ovid
From Work Like Your Dog Fifty Ways to Work Less, Play More, and Earn More by Matt Weinstein and Luke Barber (Villard) "A new motto for the 21st century employee might well be: Be funny, make money. There is a direct correlation between having fun on the job and being more productive. Successful companies are learning to hire, reward and promote individuals who bring a sense of play to their work.”
In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail—not the tail that wags the dog.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Ovid
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy(1917-1963)

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)