I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
Supply & demand
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
Money and wealth
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
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Advertising job
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
Jacques Seguela
Jacques Seguela
Banking problems
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
JP Getty
JP Getty
Lawyers
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.
Evelle Younger
Evelle Younger
Vision / action
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
Joel Barker
Going to Hong Kong
The difficulty in going from Vilvorde* to Hong Kong is not going to Hong Kong, but leaving Vilvorde.
Translated from French: "La difficulté d’aller de Vilvorde à Hong Kong, ce n’est pas d’aller à Hong Kong, c’est de quitter Vilvorde"
* Vilvorde: small city near Brussels, Belgium
Jacques Brel
Translated from French: "La difficulté d’aller de Vilvorde à Hong Kong, ce n’est pas d’aller à Hong Kong, c’est de quitter Vilvorde"
* Vilvorde: small city near Brussels, Belgium
Experience
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
F. Jones
F. Jones
The main thing - Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
quote by Stephen Covey
quote by Stephen Covey
Downsizing
Firings used to be done with surgical cleanliness.
Today they call them 'downsizings' and they use a meat cleaver.
Harvey Mackay
Today they call them 'downsizings' and they use a meat cleaver.
Harvey Mackay
Priorities
Don't tell me where your priorities are.
Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are.
James Frick
Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are.
James Frick
Discovery
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves
quote by Galileo Galilei
quote by Galileo Galilei
Scheduling priorities - Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Dividing an elephant
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants, it produces a mess.
Peter Senge
Peter Senge
Creative genius
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius.
Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are.
Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy
Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are.
Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy
Lending 20 $
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
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Computers: female or male ?
Computers must be female. No one but the creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you." Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
Computers must be male. As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the day.
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Computers must be male. As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the day.
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Catalogue
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Copyright law
Only one thing is impossible for God:
to find any sense in any copyright law around the world.
Mark Twain
to find any sense in any copyright law around the world.
Mark Twain
Design - Steve Jobs
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
The causes of action - Cruyff
Sometimes something has to happen before something will happen.
Translated from Dutch: "Soms moet er iets gebeuren voordat er iets gebeurt"
Johan Cruyff
Translated from Dutch: "Soms moet er iets gebeuren voordat er iets gebeurt"
Johan Cruyff
Useless efficiency - Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
Know yourself and your enemy - Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
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