“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Business and work quotes
Related topicsAlireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ
“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Misattributed
Source: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Old Man's Advice to Youth: "Never Lose a Holy Curiosity," http://books.google.com/books?id=dlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Life%2C%202%20May%201955&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=Life,%202%20May%201955&f=false LIFE magazine (2 May 1955) statement to William Miller, p. 64. <br class="br">1950s <br class="br">Context: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919) American businessman
Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1900%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1930&q=%22fail+to+prepare%22+%22prepare+to+fail%22 <br class="br">Misattributed
J. Paul Getty (1892–1977) American industrialist
As quoted in The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing (2003) by Pat Dorsey & Joe Mansueto, p. 234
Attributed
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
Source: The Star Wars Trilogy
